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"Thank God for that!" cried Wood, heartily. ”
Anna glanced towards her sister, but the latter avoided her eyes. Sheila was a stout woman, her bosoms huge, her face
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wide and square. “I have come from a very unfashionable quarter,” she said, “and I do not think
that I have been inside a milliner’s shop for a year. I did not care—no woman really cares—to play
the beggar maid to your King Cophetua. She stopped eating. ’
Melusine fought down the raw emotion that threatened to overwhelm her and
drew a steadying breath. . But—he was
cleverer than any of you. “How could I, when your sister sings now at the
‘Unusual’ every night and the name ‘Alcide’ flaunts from every placard in
London?”
“The likeness between us,” she said, “before I began to disfigure myself with
rouge and ill-dressed hair, was remarkable. I can’t explain—”
They regarded one another, each blinded to the other. I had no right to marry you. Superstition—you knock into it whichever way you turn.
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