Her week's amusement [electronic resource] . wice the size of anyordinary nose. There ! Of course, as usual, you havesaid the wrong thing, whispers Carrie, inan agony. You have as good as said thatMr Joness nose is twice as large as any-body elses. Arent you pleased, Mr Jones ? saysMuriel, with a little seductive smile, glanc-ing at him from under her long lashes. You have just been told that my mouthand your nose are as lovely one as theother. How she has arrived at this reasoningno one knows. Not a soul, however, daresto argue with her or dispute her right tocome to any conclusion she may ch
Her week's amusement [electronic resource] . wice the size of anyordinary nose. There ! Of course, as usual, you havesaid the wrong thing, whispers Carrie, inan agony. You have as good as said thatMr Joness nose is twice as large as any-body elses. Arent you pleased, Mr Jones ? saysMuriel, with a little seductive smile, glanc-ing at him from under her long lashes. You have just been told that my mouthand your nose are as lovely one as theother. How she has arrived at this reasoningno one knows. Not a soul, however, daresto argue with her or dispute her right tocome to any conclusion she may cheers up. His apparent determinationto fall upon Brooke and smite him hip Her Weeks Amusement. 215 and thigh dies away ; once more he saunterson with Carrie down the rugged glen. And now again we pass St Patricks Well,and cross the two rustic bridges that spanthe river rushing so merrily through thelonely Gap, — past the turnpike, past theEagles Eyrie, and so on and on, untilwe come to our starting-point and the faith-ful CHAPTEE VI. f^UB drive home is singularly silent, O^jMB our dinner marked by a careful reserve. Even the bull - terrier So: SFrxsiv seems struck by the strange quiet that hasfallen upon us : probably he regards it asthe proverbial calm that preludes the comingstorm. Later on, in the drawing-room, Miss Kings-ley remains persistently beside Carrie, andrefuses to be inveigled from her retreat ordrawn into any tete-d-tSte whatsoever. It iswith increasing appreciation of her mental Her Weeks Amusement. 217 strength I note this power to cope withstratagem. At an early hour she declaresherself, with a pretty smile, so very, verytired, and bids us all good-night. Thisshe does with a slow grace that suits her;and if it seems to me that her hand lingerslongest in that of Brooke, the idea it givesrise to is speedily set at naught by thefact that certainly her eyes rest more con-tentedly on Jones. I am still lost in amaze of doubt as to her real meanin
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