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None Other Gods

CHAPTER II
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Then, as he put his handkerchief away again, he saw Jenny coming out from the drawing-room window.
She looked really extraordinarily beautiful as she came slowly across towards him and he stood to meet her.

She was bare-headed, but her face was shadowed by the great coils of hair.

She was in a perfectly plain pink dress, perfectly cut, and she carried herself superbly.

She looked just a trifle paler than yesterday, he thought, and there was a very reserved, steady kind of question in her eyes.

(I am sorry to be obliged to go on saying this sort of thing about Jenny every time she comes upon the scene; but it is the sort of thing that everyone is obliged to go on thinking whenever she makes her appearance.) "I've got a good deal to say," said Dick, after they had sat a moment or two.


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