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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER IX
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He--was not so chivalrous as I thought." A gleam of malice shone for a moment in Mrs.Lockyard's eyes, and just a hint of it was perceptible in her voice as she made response.
"One has to make allowances sometimes.

All men are not made after the pattern of your chosen lord and master.

He, I grant you, is hard as granite and about as impassive.

Still I mustn't depreciate your prize since it was of your own choosing.

Let me wish you instead every happiness." "He was not impassive that night," said Doris quickly, with a sharp inward sense of injustice.
"No ?" questioned Mrs.Lockyard.
"No.


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