[The Danger Mark by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danger Mark CHAPTER XX 3/25
He's disgusting.
Scott objected, and so did I, but, somehow, I'm becoming reconciled to these break-neck enterprises she goes in for so hard--so terribly hard, Duane! and all I do is to fuss a little and make a few tearful objections, and she laughs and does what she pleases." He said: "It is better, is it not, to let her ?" "Yes," returned Kathleen quietly, "it is better.
That is why I say very little." There was a moment's silence, but the constraint did not last. "It's twenty below zero, my poor friend," observed Kathleen.
"Luckily, there is no wind to-night, but, all the same, you ought to keep in touch with your nose and ears." Duane investigated cautiously. "My features are still sticking to my face," he announced; "is it really twenty below? It doesn't seem so." "It is.
Yesterday the thermometers registered thirty below, but nobody here minds it when the wind doesn't blow; and Geraldine has acquired the most exquisite colour!--and she's so maddeningly pretty, Duane, and actually plump, in that long slim way of hers....
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