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The Captives

CHAPTER IV
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We smiled at one another in chapel.

It was your first time, wasn't it?
Didn't you think it all awfully quaint ?" "Won't you sit down ?" said Maggie again, "and I'll ring for the lamp." "Oh! don't ring for the lamp.

I like the dusk.

And we can make friends so much better without a lamp.

I always say if you want to know anybody really well, don't have a light." She seated herself near the fire, arranging her dress very carefully, patting her hair beneath her hat, poking her shoes out from beneath her skirts, then withdrawing them again.


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