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The Ship of Stars

CHAPTER XXI
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See, the people have all gone in." "Go'st way in too, then, and leave me here to wait for her." Taffy shut his teeth, let go her hand, and taking her by the shoulders, swung her round face toward the gate.
"March!" he commanded, and she moved off whimpering.

Once she looked back.

"March!" he repeated, and followed her down the road as one follows and threatens a mutinous dog.
The scene by the church gate had puzzled Honoria, and in her first letter (written from Italy) she came straight to the point, as her custom was: "I hope there is nothing between you and that girl who used to be at Joll's.

I say nothing about our hopes for you, but you have your own career to look to; and as I know you are too honourable to flatter an ignorant girl when you mean nothing, so I trust you are too wise to be caught by a foolish fancy.
Forgive a staid matron (of one week's standing) for writing so plainly, but what I saw made me uneasy--without cause, no doubt.

Your future, remember, is not yours only.


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