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Gordon Keith

CHAPTER XVI
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No woman looks so expectant and eager for 'no one.'" "Do you think I am like you, perambulating streets trying to make conquests ?" she said, with a smile.
"You do not have to try," he answered lazily.

"You do it simply by being on the street.

I am playing in great luck to-day." "Have you seen Louise this morning ?" she asked.
He looked her full in the face.

"I see no one but you when you are around." She laughed lightly.
"Ferdy, you will begin to believe that after a while, if you do not stop saying it so often." "I shall never stop saying it, because it is true," he replied imperturbably, turning his dark eyes on her, the lids a little closed.
"You have got so in the habit of saying it that you repeat it like my parrot that I taught once, when I was younger and vainer, to say, 'Pretty Alice.' He says it all the time." "Sensible bird," said Mr.Wickersham, calmly.

"Come and drive me up to the Park and let's have a stroll.


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