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Franklin Kane

CHAPTER VI
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She had--how can I put it ?--it seems brutal when she is such a dear--but she had so little stuff in her; it was as if she had to find it all the time in other things and people.

She is like a glass of water that would like to be wine, and she has no wine in her; it could only be poured in, and there's not room for much.

At best she can only be _eau rougie_.' Gerald laughed.

'How you see things, and say them! Poor Miss Jakes!--that's her name, isn't it?
She sounds tame.' 'She is tame.' 'Is she young, pretty ?' 'Not young, about my age; not pretty, but it's a nice face; wistful, with large, quite lovely eyes.

She knows a lot about everything, and has been everywhere, and has kept all her illusions intact--a queer mixture of information and innocence.


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