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The Crown of Life

CHAPTER VIII
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Shall we go and speak to him ?" They walked towards Irene's brother, Piers gazing this way and that in eager hope of perceiving Irene herself.

He was wild with delight.

Could fortune have been kinder?
Under what more favourable circumstance could he possibly have renewed his relations with Miss Derwent?
Eustace, turning at the right moment, stood face to face with Arnold Jacks, who presented his companion, then moved away.

Had he lingered, John Jacks' critical son would have found hints for amused speculation in the scene that followed.

For Eustace Derwent, remembering, as always, what he owed to himself and to society, behaved with entire politeness; only, like certain beverages downstairs, it was iced.


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