[David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott]@TWC D-Link bookDavid Harum CHAPTER IV 13/13
"Do you like him? I thought that he looked at you very admiringly once or twice to-night," she added, with her eyes on her sister's face. "Well," said Mary, with a petulant toss of the head, "except that I've had about an hour's talk with him, and that I knew him when we were children--at least when I was a child--he is a perfect stranger to me, and I do wish," she added in a tone of annoyance, "that you would give up that fad of yours, that every man who comes along is going to--to--be a nuisance." "He seems very pleasant," said Mrs.Carling, meekly ignoring her sister's reproach. "Oh, yes," she replied indifferently, "he's pleasant enough.
Let us go up and have a walk on deck.
I want you to be sound asleep when Julius comes in.".
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