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CHAPTER SEVEN--ON THE PAVEMENT
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Then she lowered her eyelids again, shutting all mysteriousness out of the situation except for the sobering memory of that glance, nightlike in the sunshine, expressively still in the brutal unrest of the street.
"So Captain Anthony joined you--did he ?" "He opened a field-gate and walked out on the road.

He crossed to my side and went on with me.

He had his pipe in his hand.

He said: 'Are you going far this morning ?'" These words (I was watching her white face as she spoke) gave me a slight shudder.

She remained demure, almost prim.


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