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Confidence

CHAPTER XII
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"We have had a most lovely night; we sat all the evening on Mrs.Vivian's balcony, eating ices.

To sit on a balcony, eating ices--that 's my idea of heaven." "With an angel by your side," said Captain Lovelock.
"You are not my idea of an angel," retorted Blanche.
"I 'm afraid you 'll never learn what the angels are really like," said the Captain.

"That 's why Miss Evers got Mrs.Vivian to take rooms over the baker's--so that she could have ices sent up several times a day.
Well, I 'm bound to say the baker's ices are not bad." "Considering that they have been baked! But they affect the mind," Blanche went on.

"They would have affected Captain Lovelock's--only he has n't any.

They certainly affected Angela's--putting it into her head, at eleven o'clock, to come out to walk." Angela did nothing whatever to defend herself against this ingenious sally; she simply stood there in graceful abstraction.


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