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"Shall we go right away?" she asked, after draining her glass and

brushing together the crumbs of the crusty loaf

"The sun isn't as low as it will be in two hours," he answered

"The sun will be gone in two hours"

"Well, let it go; who cares!"

They waited a good while under the orange trees, till Mada, with a thousand apologies to explain

her absence Tonie did not dare to return He was shy, and would not

willingly face any woman except his e trees, while the sun

dipped lower and lower, turning the western sky to flathened and crept out like stealthy, grotesque

rass

Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground--that is, he lay upon the

ground beside her, occasionally picking at the heown