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The Moonstone

CHAPTER XII
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Show me any two things more opposite one from the other than a rose and a thief; and I'll correct my tastes accordingly--if it isn't too late at my time of life.

You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr.Gardener?
Ah! I thought so.

Here's a lady coming.
Is it Lady Verinder ?" He had seen her before either I or the gardener had seen her, though we knew which way to look, and he didn't.

I began to think him rather a quicker man than he appeared to be at first sight.
The Sergeant's appearance, or the Sergeant's errand--one or both--seemed to cause my lady some little embarrassment.

She was, for the first time in all my experience of her, at a loss what to say at an interview with a stranger.


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