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Red Money

CHAPTER III
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"I shall leave you to have your fortune told, Clara, and follow Chaldea to pacify her." As he went toward the centre of the camp, Miss Greeby took a hesitating step as though to follow him.

In her opinion Chaldea was much too good-looking, let alone clever, for Lambert to deal with alone.

Gentilla Stanley saw the look on the hard face and the softening of the hard eyes as the cheeks grew rosy red.

From this emotion she drew her conclusions, and she chuckled to think of how true a fortune she could tell the visitor on these premises.

Mother Cockleshell's fortune-telling was not entirely fraudulent, but when her clairvoyance was not in working order she made use of character-reading with good results.
"Won't the Gorgios lady have her fortune told ?" she asked in wheedling tones.


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