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Love Eternal

CHAPTER VI
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Let us see, now.

Young gentleman, be so good as to look me in the eye." Much against his will Godfrey found himself bound to obey, and looked her "in the eye." A few moments later he felt dizzy, and after that he remembered no more.
When Godfrey awoke again the curtain was drawn, the blinds were pulled up and the butler was bringing in tea.

Miss Ogilvy sat by his side, looking at him rather anxiously, while the others were conversing together in a somewhat excited fashion.
"It is splendid, splendid!" Madame was saying.

"We have discovered a pearl beyond price, a great treasure.

Hush! he awakes." Godfrey, who experienced a curious feeling of exhaustion and of emptiness of brain, yawned and apologized for having fallen asleep, whereon the professor and the colonel both assured him that it was quite natural on so warm a day.


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