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Two young gentlemen of that peculiar breed, at once forward and shy,

found in the Regent's Park, came by on their way to lawn tennis, and he

noted with disapproval their furtive stares of ad unnecessary to a clu A gentleman, old, and, by his

hat, a professor of horticulture, passed three ti and stealthily, a queer expression about his lips

With all these ue irritation She

looked at none of them, yet was he certain that every man who passed

would look at her like that

Her face was not the face of a sorceress, who in every look holds out to

men the offer of pleasure; it had none of the 'devil's beauty' so highly

prized a the first Forsytes of the land; neither was it of that

type, no less adorable, associated with the box of chocolate; it was not

of the spiritually passionate, or passionately spiritual order, peculiar

to house-decoration and htand

neurasthenic figure, who co, in its soft persuasive passivity, its sensuous

purity, this woman's face reminded hi over the sideboard in his dining-room And