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Susy.A Story of the Plains

CHAPTER VI
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She has such lovely dark eyes and such good manners.

She has been well brought up, and it is easy to see that her friends are superior people.

I must write to them to thank them for her visit, and beg them to let her stay longer.

I think you said you didn't know them ?" But Clarence, whose eyes had been thoughtfully and admiringly wandering over every characteristic detail of the charming apartment, here raised them to its handsome mistress, with an apologetic air and a "No" of such unaffected and complete abstraction, that she was again dumbfounded.
Certainly, it could not be Mary in whom he was interested.
Abandoning any further inquisition for the present, she let the talk naturally fall upon the books scattered about the tables.

The young man knew them all far better than she did, with a cognate knowledge of others of which she had never heard.


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