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The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER X
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I believe a very charming Miss Wyndham is to be of the party." "And how long, pray, are you going to yacht with Miss Wyndham ?" "It is with her brother I propose to go.

I thought I had explained that before.

I shall probably cruise about, let me see, for three weeks or so, till the grouse-shooting begins.

Then I am due in Scotland, at the Hope-Actons', and several other places." Lady Mary laid down her work, and rose to her feet, her thin hand closing tightly over the silver crook of her stick.
"Charles," she said, in a voice trembling with anger, looking him full in the face, "you are a fool!" and she passed him without another word, and hobbled away rapidly into the house.
"Am I ?" said Charles, half aloud to himself, when the last fold of her garment had been twitched out of sight through the window.
"_Am I ?_ Molly," with great gravity, as Molly appeared, "yes, you may sit on my knee; but don't wriggle.

Molly, what is a fool ?" "I think it's Raca, only worse," said Molly.


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