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The Tragic Comedians

CHAPTER XI
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Beauty may be immoderately frank in soul to the ghostly.

The black page comprised a very long list.

'But put this on the white page,' says she to the surging father inside his box--'I loved Alvan!' A sentence or two more fetches the Alvanic man jumping out of the priest: and so closely does she realize it that she has to hunt herself into a corner with the question, whether she shall tell him she guessed him to be no other than her lover.

'How could you expect a girl, who is not a Papist, to come kneeling here ?' she says.
And he answers with no matter what of a gallant kind.
In this manner her natural effervescence amused her sorrowful mind while gazing from her chamber window at the mountain sides across the valley, where tourists, in the autumnal season, sweep up and down like a tidal river.

She had ceased to weep; she had outwept the colour of her eyes and the consolation of weeping.


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