[Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey]@TWC D-Link bookUncle Max CHAPTER VII 13/20
That alters the case, eh ?'--with a smile meant to be propitiatory, but really too triumphant for my taste. 'Under those circumstances I could wish that you had less narrow views of women's work,' I returned, with some warmth. He opened his eyes so widely at this that at any other moment I should have been amused. 'By all that is wonderful, it is the first time I have been accused of narrowness.' And here he gave a gruff little laugh.
'I think I had better leave yon alone, Miss Garston, and label you "dangerous." There is a hot sparkle in your eyes that warns me to keep off the premises.
"Trespassers will be taken up." I begin to feel uncomfortable.
Cunliffe has put me _en parole_, and I dare not break bounds.
Can you manage to sit in the same room a little longer with such a heretic ?' 'Heretics can be converted.' He shrugged his shoulders at this. 'Not such a hardened sceptic as myself.
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