[Cressy by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookCressy CHAPTER VIII 7/17
No trespassers but yourself.
Thank you, sir." She twirled lightly on her heel and dropped him that exaggerated curtsey known to the school-children as a "cheese." It permitted in its progress the glimpse of a pretty little slipper which completed his subjugation. "Well, if it's only a fair compromise," he began laughingly. "Compromise means somebody giving up.
Who is it ?" she asked. The infatuated Stacey had reached the point of thinking this repartee if possible more killing than his own. "Ha! That's for Miss Cressy to say." But the young lady leaning back against the lintel with the comfortable ease of being irresponsibly diverted, sagely pointed out that that was the function of the arbitrator. "Ah well, suppose we begin by giving up Seth Davis, eh? You see that I'm pretty well posted, Miss Cressy." "You alarm me," said Cressy sweetly.
"But I reckon he HAD given up." "He was in the running that night at the ball.
Looked half savage while I was dancing with you.
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