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For instance On the first evening of this particular visit he

found the rooarden at the back He sat there for half an hour

under a flawless sky of stars watching the people coht of the electric laowns and

jewels of the women with the eye of a connoisseur; and then into

this starlit quiet there caing frock of white satin darted swiftly from

the roo herself nervously upon a bench She could not,

to Ricardo's thinking, beThe supple slenderness of her figure proved

it, and he had limpse, as she rushed out, of a

fresh and very pretty face; but he had lost sight of it now For

the girl wore a big black satin hat with a broad brim, from which

a couple of white ostrich feathers curved over at the back, and in

the shadow of that hat her face wasdiamond eardrops, which sparkled and trembled

as she moved her head--and that she did constantly Now she stared

herself back; then she

twisted nervously to the right, and then a ain she stared in front of her, swinging a

satin slipper backwards and forwards against the pavement with the