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The Vanished Messenger

CHAPTER XVIII
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What of his golf, Esther, eh ?" "Mr.Hamel plays very well, indeed," the girl replied.
"Your niece was too good for me," Hamel confessed.
Mr.Fentolin smiled.
"The politeness of this younger generation," he remarked, "keeps the truth sometimes hidden from us.

I perceive that I shall not be told who won.

Lady Saxthorpe, you are fortunate indeed in the morning you have chosen for your visit.

There is no sun in the world like an April sun, and no corner of the earth where it shines with such effect as here.
Look steadily to the eastward of that second dike and you will see the pink light upon the sands, which baffled every one until our friend Hamel came and caught it on his canvas." "I do see it," Lady Saxthorpe murmured.

"What eyes you have, Mr.
Fentolin! What perception for colour!" "Dear lady," Mr.Fentolin said, "I am one of those who benefit by the law of compensations.


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