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Eleanor

CHAPTER III
19/34

There had been no meddling of freakish hands with her dark hair this morning.

It was tightly plaited at the back of her head.

Her plain sun-shade, her black kid gloves were neatness itself--middle-class, sabbatical neatness.
Manisty recalled his thoughts of the last half-hour with a touch of amusement.

He had been meditating on 'women'-- the delightfulness of 'women,' his own natural inclination to their society.

But how narrow is everybody's world! His collective noun of course had referred merely to that small, high-bred, cosmopolitan class which presents types like Eleanor Burgoyne.


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