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now

"Yes Marty South" Melbury persisted in his narrative, to divert her

frorief, if possible "Before he went away she wrote

hi while before reading

He chanced to pull it out in Mrs Charmond's, presence, and read it out

loud It contained so which teased her veryhim to make it up when she h to give the gist of the incident, which was

that Marty South's letter had been concerning a certain personal

adornment common to herself and Mrs Charmond Her bullet reached its

billet at last The scene between Fitzpiers and Felice had been sharp,

as only a scene can be which arises out of the mortification of one

woman by another in the presence of a lover True, Marty had not

effected it by word of e about the locks of hair was

her letter to him aloud to Felice in

the playfully ironical tones of one who had beco his friend, in the phrase of George

Herbert, a "flat delight" He had stroked those false tresses with his

handthem to be transplanted, and it was

impossible when the discovery was so abruptly enerous disposition