[The Hoyden by Mrs. Hungerford]@TWC D-Link bookThe Hoyden CHAPTER VII 13/19
"I came back----" she says presently. "A widow ?" "A widow--_thank God!"_ A silence follows; something of tragedy seems to have fallen into the air--with that young lovely creature standing there, upright, passionate, her arms clasped behind her head, as the heroine of it. The sunlight from the dying day lights up the red, rich beauty of her hair, the deadly pallor of her skin.
Through it all the sound of the tennis-balls from below, as they hurry to and fro through the hair, can be heard.
Perhaps it reaches her.
She flings herself suddenly into a chair, and bursts out laughing. "Let us come back to common-sense," cries she.
"What were we talking of? The marriage of Maurice to this little plebeian--this little female Croesus.
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