[Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookMan and Wife CHAPTER THE SECOND 18/25
All right! I'll play." "Oh! smoke by all means!" retorted Blanche.
"I shall choose somebody else.
I won't have you!" The honorable young gentleman looked unaffectedly relieved.
The petulant young lady turned her back on him, and surveyed the guests at the other extremity of the summer-house. "Who shall I choose ?" she said to herself. A dark young man--with a face burned gipsy-brown by the sun; with something in his look and manner suggestive of a roving life, and perhaps of a familiar acquaintance with the sea--advanced shyly, and said, in a whisper: "Choose me!" Blanche's face broke prettily into a charming smile.
Judging from appearances, the dark young man had a place in her estimation peculiarly his own. "You!" she said, coquettishly.
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