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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER XV
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And she was watching him.
For the moment he did not remember when he had seen her, and then came a vague memory of the stirring emotions of their first encounter.

But the dancing web of melody about him kept the air of that great marching song from his memory.
The lady to whom he talked repeated her remark, and Graham recalled himself to the quasi-regal flirtation upon which he was engaged.
Yet, unaccountably, a vague restlessness, a feeling that grew to dissatisfaction, came into his mind.

He was troubled as if by some half forgotten duty, by the sense of things important slipping from him amidst this light and brilliance.

The attraction that these ladies who crowded about him were beginning to exercise ceased.

He no longer gave vague and clumsy responses to the subtly amorous advances that he was now assured were being made to him, and his eyes wandered for another sight of the girl of the first revolt.
Where, precisely, had he seen her ?...
Graham was in one of the upper galleries in conversation with a bright-eyed lady on the subject of Eadhamite--the subject was his choice and not hers.


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