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"Let's toddle over to the Victoria at once. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind. The evening breeze came; the bamboo shades on the
veranda clicked and rasped; the loose edges of the manuscript curled. I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto
him—
“I suppose pride and self-assertion are sin? Sinned against heaven—Yes, I
have sinned against heaven and before thee. Did I not say so, Hilary?’
Melusine’s glance shot across to the newcomer, and found a petite blonde
standing there, very fashionably attired in a velvet mantel over an apple-green
robe, the furred hood framing a face alive with mischief. About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. She met his older brother and
played another short violin recital, much to the delight of
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John’s immediate family. Earles would
permit. With a finger crooked in his side-pocket, she measured her
step with his, her senses still dizzy from the echo of the magic sounds. After that night she made it a habit. Wood by increased
corpulence and decreased powers of vision,—by deeper wrinkles and higher
shoulders, by scantier breath and a fuller habit.
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