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The Firing Line

CHAPTER XV
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And I can just hear the surf--calling, calling 'Calypso!' as you called me once....

I _must_ go, now." "To the sea or the house ?" he asked, laughing.
She walked a few paces toward the house, halted, and looked back audaciously.
"I'd go to the sea--only I'm afraid I'd be found out....

Isn't it all too stupid! Where convention is needless and one's wish is so harmless why should a girl turn coward at the fear of somebody discovering how innocently happy she is trying to be with a man!...

It makes me very impatient at times." ...

She turned, hesitated, stepped nearer and looked him in the face, daringly perverse.
"I want to go with you!...


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