. She had
never let off a pistol in her life. "
"What did I say?"
"Only one word," she said, offering her first white lie. "Choose, Jack. The entire place was a masterpiece of wooden carving, a design
of interleaving carried throughout. “I will come—with pleasure,” she said, “if you will promise to treat me as a new
acquaintance—not to refer to—Paris—at all. ‘The secret passage!’
It did not take long to find the mechanism of the candlesconce that opened the
door. But his astonishment would have
been great indeed had he known that not even her father had ever caressed her,
either with lips or with hands. It's your eagerness that bothers
me. We shall be equally matched. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
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"I can't. "Adorable girl, I have long loved you to
desperation.
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