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The Just and the Unjust

CHAPTER SEVEN
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Her hair was burnished copper and her coloring the tint of warm ivory with the sunlight showing through.

North gazed at her as though he would store in his memory the vision of her loveliness.

Then they walked out to the dining-room.
The dinner was rather a somber feast.

North felt the restraint of the general's presence; he sensed his disfavor; and with added bitterness he realized that this was his last night in Mount Hope, that the morrow would find him speeding on his way West.

He had given up everything for nothing, and now that a purpose, a hope, a great love had come to him, he must go from this place, the town of his birth, where he had become a bankrupt in both purse and reputation.
It was a relief when they returned to the drawing-room.


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