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Alice of Old Vincennes

CHAPTER XXII
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Now you go home.

Lieutenant Beverley is amply able to take care of himself.

And let me tell you, if you expect a good man to have great confidence in you, stay home and let him hunt you up instead of you hunting him.

A man likes that better." It would be impossible to describe Alice's feelings, as they just then rose like a whirling storm in her heart.

She was humiliated, she was indignant, she was abashed; she wanted to break forth with a tempest of denial, self-vindication, resentment; she wanted to cry with her face hidden in her hands.


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