[A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Perilous Secret CHAPTER XVII 6/12
Who could this be for? She sauntered upon the lawn till she found herself somehow near the outward boundary, where there was a gate leading into the Park.
As she walked to and fro by this gate she observed, out of the tail of her eye of course, the figure of a devoted lover creeping toward her.
Whether this took her by surprise, or whether the lovely creature was playing the part of a beautiful striped spider waiting for her fly, the reader must judge for himself. Percy came to the gate; she walked past him twice, coming and going with her eyes fixed upon vacancy.
She passed him a third time.
He murmured in a pleading voice, "Julia!" She neither saw nor heard, so attractive had the distant horizon become. Percy opened the gate and came inside, and stood before her the next time she passed.
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