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The Coquette’s Victim

CHAPTER VI
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He was eighteen then and one of the handsomest young men England could boast.

No barber's beauty; strong, comely, of noble bearing, with a face that had come to him from the crusaders of old.
Then Lady Hildegarde set herself to work to discover what manner of man her son was.

She was puzzled; he was brave, generous, full of high spirits, truthful, even to bluntness.

She could not discover any grave fault in him.

She thanked God he had no vices, no mean faults, no contemptible failings.
"Basil," she said to him, one evening, as the three sat around the drawing-room fire.


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