[Simon Dale by Anthony Hope]@TWC D-Link bookSimon Dale CHAPTER II 5/19
Her going grieved me to the heart, and that she should go thus incensed stung me yet more.
I was jealous of every man in London town.
Had not my argument, then, some reason in it after all? "Fare-you-well, madame," said I, with a heavy frown and a sweeping bow. No player from the Lane could have been more tragic. "Fare-you-well, sir.
I will not detain you, for you have, I know, other farewells to make." "Not for a week yet!" I cried, goaded to a show of exultation that Cydaria stayed so long. "I don't doubt that you'll make good use of the time," she said, as with a fine dignity she waved me to the door.
Girl as she was, she had caught or inherited the grand air that great ladies use. Gloomily I passed out, to fall into the hands of my lord, who was walking on the terrace.
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