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The Testing of Diana Mallory

CHAPTER V
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They were entering the woods of the park when he suddenly stopped and said: "Do you know that you have had a jolly good revenge--pressed down and running over ?" Diana smiled, and said nothing.

She had delighted in the encounter; so, in spite of castigation, had he.

There surged up in him a happy excited consciousness of quickened life and hurrying hours.

He looked with distaste at the nearness of the house; and at the group of figures which had paused in front of them, waiting for them, on the farther edge of the broad lawn.
"You have convicted me of an odious, exclusive, bullying temper--or you think you have--and all you will allow _me_ in the way of victory is that I got the best of it because Captain Roughsedge wasn't there!" "Not at all.

I respect your critical faculty!" "You wish to hear me gush like Mrs.Minchin.It is simply astounding the number of people you like!" Diana's laugh broke into a sigh.
"Perhaps it's like a hungry boy in a goody-shop.


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