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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER V
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Can't we go somewhere else ?" "Certainly we can," he agreed with an eagerness that was more than polite.
She thanked him with another of her comfortable, sensible smiles--a smile that took all embarrassment out of the dilemma, as balm will take irritation from a wound.

And gently she removed her hat and gown, and her gestures and speech, and her comfortableness, from those august precincts.

And they descended to the grill-room, which was relatively noisy, and where her roses were less conspicuous than the helmet of Navarre, and her frock found its sisters and cousins from far lands.
"I'm not much for these restaurants," she said, over grilled kidneys.
"No ?" he responded tentatively.

"I'm sorry.

I thought the other night----" "Oh yes," she broke in, "I was very glad to go, the other night, to that place, very glad.


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