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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER V
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"That's the right of another woman," she said, with playful malice, as she put on her pattens.

"I wonder what you are thinking of! Thank you for the lift in that handsome gig.

Good-by." He blushed a little, shook his head at her, and drove on ahead into the streets--the churches, the abbey, and other buildings on this clear bright morning having the liny distinctness of architectural drawings, as if the original dream and vision of the conceiving master-mason, some mediaeval Vilars or other unknown to fame, were for a few minutes flashed down through the centuries to an unappreciative age.

Giles saw their eloquent look on this day of transparency, but could not construe it.

He turned into the inn-yard.
Marty, following the same track, marched promptly to the hair-dresser's, Mr.Percombe's.


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