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The Yellow Crayon

CHAPTER XII
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Pray do exactly as you like, but don't drop the ashes upon the carpet." Lady Carey laughed softly.
"I suppose I am rather a thorn in your side as a relative," she remarked.

"You must put it down to the roving blood of my ancestors.

I could no more live the life of you other women than I could fly.

I must have excitement, movement, all the time." A tall, heavily built man, who had been reading some letters at the other end of the room, came sauntering up to them.
"Well," he said, "you assuredly live up to your principles, for you travel all over the world as though it were one vast playground." "And sometimes," she remarked, "my journeys are not exactly successful.
I know that that is what you are dying to say." "On the contrary," he said, "I do not blame you at all for this last affair.

You brought Lucille here, which was excellent.


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