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Confidence

CHAPTER XXIV
10/21

Have you been waiting a long time?
How d' ye do?
You must think we are polite." She held out her hand to Bernard, smiling very graciously.

At Captain Lovelock she barely glanced.

"I hope you are very well," she went on to Longueville; "but I need n't ask that.

You 're as blooming as a rose.
What in the world has happened to you?
You look so brilliant--so fresh.
Can you say that to a man--that he looks fresh?
Or can you only say that about butter and eggs ?" "It depends upon the man," said Captain Lovelock.

"You can't say that a man 's fresh who spends his time in running about after you!" "Ah, are you here ?" cried Blanche with another little cry of surprise.
"I did n't notice you--I thought you were the waiter.


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