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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XIV
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I know the hotel is fearfully expensive, and I shall like the other place much better.
Miss Roche is a very nice girl, and she was glad to see me; and if I'm near her, I shall get all sorts of advantages--in French, and so on." Hilliard wondered what accounts of herself Eve had rendered to the Parisienne, but he did not venture to ask.
"Will Patty like it as well ?" "Just as well.

Miss Roche speaks English, you know, and they'll get on very well together." "Where is the place ?" "Rather far off--towards the Jardin des Plantes.

But I don't think that would matter, would it ?" "I leave it entirely to you." "Thank you," she answered, with that intonation he did not like.

"Of course, if you would like to meet Miss Roche, you can." "We'll think about it.

It's enough that she's an old friend of yours.".


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