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Eleanor

CHAPTER XIII
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It was pleasure of this kind that beckoned to him now,--in the wooing, the conquering, the developing of Lucy.
A voice struck on his ear.

It was Eleanor calling to Lucy from the salon.
Ah!--Eleanor?
A rush of feeling--half generous, half audacious--came upon him.

He knew that he had given her pain at Nemi.

He had been a brute, an ungrateful brute! Women like Eleanor have very exalted and sensitive ideals of friendship.

He understood that he had pulled down Eleanor's ideal, that he had wounded her sorely.


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