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The Little Colonel’s House Party

CHAPTER IX
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She looked at her hand with a new interest after she had withdrawn it from the screen, and Keith found her studying it again after the fortune-telling was done, and the others had gone into the drawing-room.
Eugenia sat at the piano, Lloyd twanged on the harp, while Joyce tuned her mandolin and Malcolm his banjo.

Rob lolled in an open window, listening, and beating time with both feet.

Mrs.Sherman and Miss Allison were down at the far end of the wide porch, where the moonlight was stealing through the vines and shimmering on the floor.
It was on the porch steps that Keith found Betty looking at her hands again, as they lay spread out on her lap, and studying their lines by moonlight.

He sat down beside her.
"How does your Aunt Allison know ?" she asked, without looking up.

"It seems like some sort of witches' work to me, the way she guessed things about the rest of you; and I suppose it's just as true what she said about me,--at least the part about being too sensitive and imaginative is true, I know.


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