His jawline was
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masculine and severe, only tempered by the soft hazy
color of his eyes. And of course! She had a brilliant idea. In the one he approached was gathered together a vast
assortment of weapons, each of which, as appeared from the ticket attached to it,
had been used as an instrument of destruction. “I knew,” she said, in a low despairing tone, “that people would talk. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. In short, more preparations were made than if a state criminal was about
to be executed. The spinsters had purchased one
grass-linen tablecloth; the girl and the young man had purchased nothing. She was naturally weaker, she would tire quicker, and she
need not concern herself with the peculiar obligations of honour obtaining
amongst gentlemen.
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