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A Laodicean

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What will she want?
Dinner would be best--she has had no lunch, I know; or tea perhaps, and dinner at the usual time.

Still, if she has had no lunch--Hark, what do I hear ?' She ran to an arrow-slit, and Somerset, who had also heard something, looked out of an adjoining one.

They could see from their elevated position a great way along the white road, stretching like a tape amid the green expanses on each side.

There had arisen a cloud of dust, accompanied by a noise of wheels.
'It is she,' said Charlotte.

'O yes--it is past four--the telegram has been delayed.' 'How would she be likely to come ?' 'She has doubtless hired a carriage at the inn: she said it would be useless to send to meet her, as she couldn't name a time....


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