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The Hidden Children

CHAPTER XV
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There was a scene....

So Boyd came no more, save when other officers came, which was every day.

Somehow I have never been certain that he and Lana did not meet in secret when none suspected." "Have you proof ?" I asked, cold with rage.
She shook her head, and her gaze grew vague and remote.

After a while she seemed to put away her apprehensions, and, smiling, she turned to me, challenging me with her clear, sunny eyes: "Come, Euan, you shall do me reason, now that my curly pate is innocent of powder, no French red to tint my lips and hide my freckles, and but a linsey-woolsey gown instead of chintz and silk to cover me! So tell me honestly, does not the enchantment break that for a little while seemed to hold you near me ?" "Do you forget," said I, "that I first saw my enchantress in rags and tattered shoon ?" "Oh!" she said, tossing her pretty head.

"Extremes attract all men.


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