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Confidence

CHAPTER XIII
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As Bernard approached the young girl, Angela, who had not seen him, turned round.
"Don't move," he said.

"You were just in the position in which I painted your portrait at Siena." "Don't speak of that," she answered.
"I have never understood," said Bernard, "why you insist upon ignoring that charming incident." She resumed for a moment her former position, and stood looking at the opposite hills.
"That 's just how you were--in profile--with your head a little thrown back." "It was an odious incident!" Angela exclaimed, rapidly changing her attitude.
Bernard was on the point of making a rejoinder, but he thought of Gordon Wright and held his tongue.

He presently told her that he intended to leave Baden on the morrow.
They were walking toward her mother.

She looked round at him quickly.
"Where are you going ?" "To Paris," he said, quite at hazard; for he had not in the least determined where to go.
"To Paris--in the month of August ?" And she gave a little laugh.

"What a happy inspiration!" She gave a little laugh, but she said nothing more, and Bernard gave no further account of his plan.


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