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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER II
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Do send me a note round in the morning, with the exact name of your house, and some idea of the road we must follow, so that we do not get lost.

I suppose you two," she added, turning to Forrest and Lord Ronald, "will not mind starting a day or two before we had planned ?" "Not in the least," they assured her.
"And Miss Le Mesurier ?" Cecil de la Borne asked.

"Will she really not mind giving up some of these wonderful entertainments ?" Jeanne smiled upon him brilliantly.

It was a smile which came so seldom, and which, when it did come, transformed her face so utterly, that she seemed like a different person.
"I shall be very glad, indeed," she said, "to leave London.

I am looking forward so much to seeing what the English country is like." "It will make me very happy," Cecil de la Borne said, bowing over her hand, "to try and show you." Her eyes seemed to pass through him, to look out of the crowded room, as though indeed they had found their way into some corner of the world where the things which make life lie.


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