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Cressy

CHAPTER VI
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They thought it high fun to come with me--these two.

I did come to look for something--not in my desk, but yours." "Was it this ?" he whispered, taking the myrtle from his breast.

She seized it with a light cry, putting it first to her lips and then to his.

Then clasping his face again between her soft palms, she turned it to the window and said: "Look at them and not at me." He did so--seeing the two figures slowly walking in the trail.

And holding her there firmly against his breast, it seemed a blasphemy to ask the question that had been upon his lips.
"That's not all," she murmured, moving his face backwards and forwards to her lips as if it were something to which she was giving breath.
"When we came to the woods I felt that you would be here." "And feeling that, you brought HIM ?" said Ford, drawing back.
"Why not ?" she replied indolently.


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