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Life and Gabriella

CHAPTER VI
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All you can do is to hide them." That his blunt manner was an affectation, she was quick to discern.
While he talked to her, he looked at her knowingly with his light fishy eyes, and by his look and his tone he seemed to establish an immediate intimacy between them--as if he and she were speaking a language which was foreign to the rest of the table.

He appeared to be kind, she thought, and on his side he was thinking that she was a nice girl, with an attractive face and remarkable eyes.

On the whole, he preferred brown eyes, though his wife's were the colour of slate.

"Why the deuce did she marry that fool ?" he questioned impatiently.
Across the table Billy King was working hopelessly but valiantly to engage Mrs.Crowborough's attention.

What a splendid figure he had, and how clean and fine was the modelling of his features! He was just the man a girl like Patty would fall in love with, and Gabriella no longer felt that.


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