A PAIE OF BLUE
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EYES.
gave you credit for more
'I certainly
corainon sense,' he said.
She reddened a '
Miss
little
Swancourt,
I
and walked insist
on.
upon your
coming down,' he exclaimed.
I •
am
safe
enough.
At that moment, by reason of
a slight
'
a minute.
I ^^ill in
have done
I
it often.'
perturbation his words had caused in her,
caught
Elfride's foot
a
itself in
little tuft
of
grass gro^T.ng in a joint of the stonework,
and she almost
Knight
her balance.
lost
sprang forward with a face of horror.
what seemed the
By
special interposition of a
considerate Providence she tottered to the
inner edge of the parapet instead of to the outer,
and reeled over upon the lead roof
two or three Knight
a
woman
that kind!
below the wall.
seized her as in a vice,
panting,
said,
met
feet
'
That ever
fool enousrh to
II.
should have
do a
thins: of
Good God, you ought
ashamed of yourself VOL.
I
and he
I'
F
to
be
