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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Nine
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They are not cheap, but you can get them if you really search." "Would you like to furnish it ?" Walderhurst inquired.

The consciousness that he could, if he chose, do the utmost thing of its kind in this way, at the moment assumed a certain proportion of interest to him under the stimulation of the wonder and delight which leaped into Emily's eyes as the possibility confronted her.

Having been born without imagination, his wealth had not done for him anything out of the ordinary every-day order.
"Would I _like_ to do it?
Oh, _dear_!" she exclaimed.

"Why, in all my life I have never _dreamed_ of being able to do such things." That, of course, was true, he reflected, and the fact added to his appreciation of the moment.

There were, of course, many people to whom it would be impossible to contemplate the spending of a sum of money of any importance in the indulgence of a wish founded on mere taste.


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