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The March Family Trilogy

PART III
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Then his eye glazed with a far-off look, and a doting smile came into his face.

"When we went through the Dresden gallery together, Rose and I were perfectly used up at the end of an hour, but his mother kept on as long as there was anything to see, and came away as fresh as a peach." Then March saw that it was useless to expect anything different from him, and he let him talk on about Mrs.Adding all the rest of the way back to the hotel.

Kenby seemed only to have begun when they reached the door, and wanted to continue the subject in the reading-room.
March pleaded his wish to find how his wife had got through the afternoon, and he escaped to her.

He would have told her now that Kenby was in the house, but he was really so sick of the fact himself that he could not speak of it at once, and he let her go on celebrating all she had seen from the window since she had waked from her long nap.

She said she could never be glad enough that they had come just at that time.
Soldiers had been going by the whole afternoon, and that made it so feudal.
"Yes," he assented.


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