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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER III
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She took a fifty to one chance at the bar, and she nearly lost.

But, by heaven, you should have seen her bring my little boat down the creek, with the tide swelling, and a squall right down on the top of us.

It was magnificent.

Cecil!" "Well ?" "Why does Kate Caynsard treat her life as though it were of less value than the mackerel she lowers her line for?
Do you know ?" The younger man dropped his eyeglass and shrugged his shoulders contemptuously.
"Since when," he demanded, "have I shown any inclination to play the village Lothario?
Thick ankles and robust health have never appealed to me--I prefer the sicklier graces of civilization." "Kate Caynsard," Andrew said thoughtfully, "is not of the villagers.
She leads their life, but her birth is better on her father's side, at any rate, than our own." "If I might be allowed to make the suggestion," Cecil said, regarding his brother with supercilious distaste, "don't you think it would be just as well to change your clothes before our guests arrive ?" "Why should I ?" Andrea asked calmly.
"They are not my friends.

I scarcely know even their names.


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