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The Tempting of Tavernake

CHAPTER II
18/31

I watched you a few nights ago out on the roof at Blenheim House.

You were looking across the house-tops and you didn't seem to be seeing anything at all really, and yet all the time I knew that you were seeing things I couldn't, you were understanding and appreciating something which I knew nothing of, and it worried me.

I tried to talk to you that evening, but you were rude." "You really are a curious person," she remarked.

"Are you always worried, then, if you find that some one else is seeing things or understanding things which are outside your comprehension ?" "Always," he replied promptly.
"You are too far-reaching," she affirmed.

"You want to gather everything into your life.


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