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The Golden Fleece

CHAPTER II
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It would have been difficult to devise a better opportunity than this to monopolize masculine admiration, and she fell to speculating as to what sort of an experience Mr.Freeman must have had, so to panoply him against her magic.

On the other hand, she was the recipient of whatever attentions he could bring himself to detach from the horizon-line, or from his own thoughts (which appeared to amount, practically, to about the same thing).

She had no other rivals; and a woman will submit amiably to a good deal of indifference, provided she be assured that no other woman is enjoying what she lacks.
Freeman, for his part, had nothing to complain of.

Grace Parsloe was a singularly pretty girl.

Singular properly qualifies her.


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