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CHAPTER FOUR--ANTHONY AND FLORA
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Say nothing.

Don't move.

I'll have everything arranged; and as long as you don't hate the sight of me--and you don't--there's nothing to be frightened about.

One of their silly offices with a couple of ink-slingers of no consequence; poor, scribbling devils." The hansom drove away with Flora de Barral inside, without movement, without thought, only too glad to rest, to be alone and still moving away without effort, in solitude and silence.
Anthony roamed the streets for hours without being able to remember in the evening where he had been--in the manner of a happy and exulting lover.

But nobody could have thought so from his face, which bore no signs of blissful anticipation.


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