[Jeanne of the Marshes by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookJeanne of the Marshes CHAPTER XII 15/17
Decidedly he was annoyed. "You are certainly the first," he said drily, "who has ever discovered the likeness, if there is any." "It does not amount to a likeness," she answered, "and you need not look so angry.
Mr.De la Borne is considered very good-looking.
Dear me, what a nuisance! Do you see? We are going!" Andrew de la Borne took the cup from her hand and helped to prepare the boat.
With a faint smile upon his lips he heard a little colloquy between Cecil and the Princess which amused him.
The Princess, as he prepared to hand her into the boat, showed herself at any rate possessed of the instincts of her order.
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