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"Dashed if I understand Miss Dwight at all She blows hot and cold," he confided in a burst of frankness

"That's just her way We all have our moods, don't we? I mean we poor women Don't all the poets credit us with inconstancy?" The least ripple of amusement at her sex swelled in her throat and died away

"Oh, by Jove, if that's all! I say, do you havethick lashes fluttered down to the cheeks Was she embarrassed at his question? He felt a sudden lift of the heart, an access of newborn confidence Dobyans Verinder had never dared to lift his hopes as high as the famous beauty Joyce Seldon Now for the first time his vanity stirred Somehow--quite unexpectedly to him--the bars between them were down Was it possible that she had taken a fancy to hiination soared

For a moment her deep pansy eyes rested in his He felt a sudden intoxication of the senses Aler he drew up a chair and seated hipursuit Nor was he disturbed by the least suspicion of having been filled with the sensations and the i incidentally overheard Lady Farquhar tell her husband that Dobyans Verinder's fortune must be nearer two million pounds than one iven that he was such a tremendous catch