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Uncle Max

CHAPTER VII
7/20

Ah! here are the matches.

Now we shall be able to see each other.' And he coolly lighted Uncle Max's reading-lamp and two candles, and stirred the fire with such a vigorous hand that the huge lump of coal splintered into fragments.
'There; I do like a mighty blaze.

Take that newspaper, Miss Garston, if the flame scorches your face.

I know young ladies are afraid of their complexions.' Why need he have said that, as though my brown skin were Sara's pretty pink cheeks?
'Why do you not throw off your wraps if the room be too hot ?' And he spoke so imperatively that I actually obeyed him, and got rid of my hat and ulster, which he deposited on the couch.
I did not like the look of Mr.Hamilton any better than I had liked it yesterday.

His dark, smoothly-shaven face was not to my taste; it looked stern and forbidding.


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