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A Splendid Hazard

CHAPTER VII
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"No.

The law doesn't permit you to stick pins in that kind.

No; I mean that kind," indicating the cases.
Both young men admitted that this field had been left unexplored by either of them.
It was during a lull, when the talk had fallen to the desultory, that the hall door opened, and Laura came in.

Her cheeks glowed like the sunny side of a Persian peach; her eyes sparkled; between her moist red lips there was a flash of firm, white teeth; the seal-brown hair glinted a Venetian red--for at that moment she stood in the path of the sunshine which poured in at the window--and blown tendrils in picturesque disorder escaped from under her hat.
The three men rose hastily; the father with pride, Fitzgerald with gladness, and Breitmann with doubt and wonder and fear..


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