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Maruja

CHAPTER II
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Go you both and join them.

I shall wait and say an Ave for the soul of Koorotora, and slip back alone the way I came." She had steadily evaded the pleading glance of Carroll, and though her bright face and unblemished toilet showed the inefficiency of her excuse, it was evident that her wish to be alone was genuine and without coquetry.

They could only lift their hats and turn regretfully away.
As the red cap of the young officer disappeared amidst the evergreen foliage, the young woman uttered a faint sigh, which she repeated a moment after as a slight nervous yawn.

Then she opened and shut her fan once or twice, striking the sticks against her little pale palm, and then, gathering the lace under her oval chin with one hand, and catching her fan and skirt with the other, bent her head and dipped into the bushes.

She came out on the other side near a low fence, that separated the park from a narrow lane which communicated with the high road beyond.


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