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The Pool in the Desert

CHAPTER 2
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There was no reason why he shouldn't.' 'Now that I think of it,' I rejoined, 'he shot a card on me too, at the Club.

I was a little surprised.

We didn't seem somehow to be on those terms.

One doesn't readily associate him with any conventionality.' 'There's no reason why he shouldn't,' said Dora again, and with this vague comment we spoke of something else, both of us, I think, a little disquieted and dissatisfied that he had.
'I think,' Dora said as I went away, 'that you had better go up to the studio and tell him what you have told me.

Perhaps it doesn't matter much, but I can't bear the thought of his not knowing.' 'Come to Kauffer's in the morning and see the pictures,' I urged; but she turned away, 'Oh, not with you.' I found my way almost at once to Amy Villa, not only because I had been told to go there.


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