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Snake and Sword

CHAPTER VII
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_All_ the Harringport crowd are coming from Folkestone, you know.

If you run the clock-golf she'll _adore_ clock-golf, and if you play tennis she'll _adore_ tennis....
Can't think what she sees in you...." "Don't be cattish, Lusilly," urged the young man.

"'Melier's all right.

It's you she comes to see, of course." To which, it is regrettable to have to relate, Lucille replied "Rodents".
Talk languished between the young people.

Both seemed unwontedly ill at ease and nervous.
"D'you get long between leaving Sandhurst and joining the Corps you're going to distinguish, Dammy ?" asked the girl after an uneasy and pregnant silence, during which they had furtively watched each other, and smiled a little uncomfortably and consciously when they had caught each other doing so.
"Dunno.


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