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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XIV
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They are not lightly duped by one of their sex.

Few tasks are more difficult than for a young woman under a cloud to hoodwink old women of the world.

They are the prey of financiers, but Time has presented them a magic ancient glass to scan their sex in.
At Princess Paryli's Ball two young men of singular elegance were observed by Diana, little though she concentered her attention on any figures of the groups.

She had the woman's faculty (transiently bestowed by perfervid jealousy upon men) of distinguishing minutely in the calmest of indifferent glances.

She could see without looking; and when her eyes were wide they had not to dwell to be detective.


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