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CHAPTER V
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Thomas! whatever else the gardener does, he is not to make any floricultural noises under my window.

For the rest of the afternoon I shall be immersed in study--and the quieter the house is, the more obliged I shall feel to everybody." Before Miss Garth's battery of reproof could open fire, before the first outburst of Mr.Vanstone's hearty laughter could escape his lips, she bowed to them with imperturbable gravity; ascended the house-steps, for the first time in her life, at a walk instead of a run, and retired then and there to the bedroom regions.

Frank's helpless astonishment at her disappearance added a new element of absurdity to the scene.

He stood first on one leg and then on the other; rolling and unrolling his part, and looking piteously in the faces of the friends about him.

"I know I can't do it," he said.


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