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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He rowed her back and said good-bye to
her.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Theyremained safe; and her habits would have
suffered if she had married. The people she didntwant would come; the others
wouldnt.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She found the climate of Edinburgh goodfor her. He
would have them into the Bridge, she cried.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>She sat in her carriage,upright, alone, looking
through her glasses. But she could not seethem like that, not other people. Itwould
be intolerable if dowdy women came to her party!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The words gave her an extraordinary shock, as Miss
Craye struck the lastchord of the Bach fugue. In September, Madame, when were not so
busy.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The girl would be much more unhappy if she didnt
believe. Then in the midst of this creeping, crawling life, suddenly shewas on the
crest of a wave. Good Bertha clasping her hands by the fire-place.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Indeed, how could one then feel surprise if, lying
in bed, she could notclose her eyes?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was how she made her living, after all. A
fault of the skin, said the grey-headed woman hurriedly.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Needless to say, she had neverspoken about it to
anybody. She saw back and back into the pastbehind her. CouldMabel tell her if
Elmthorpe was ever let for August and September? White gloves, she said, with some
ring in her voice that Clarissaremembered. The girl would be much more unhappy if
she didnt believe.</FONT></DIV>
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