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Excerpt from A Life for a Life: A Novel
Several people, I noticed, looked at them and smiled; and one lady whispered something about poor clergy man's daughter and Sir William Treherne.
I felt hot to my very temples. Oh, if we were all in Paradise, or a nunnery, or some place where there was neither thinking nor making of marriages!
I determined to catch Lisa when the waltz was done. She waltzes well, even gracefully, for a tall woman - but I wished, I wished - my wish was cut short by a collision which made me start up with an idea of rushing to the rescue; however, the next moment Treherne and she had recovered their balance and were spinning on again. Of course I sat down immediately.
But my looks must be terrible tell-tales, since some one behind me said, as plain as if in answer to my thoughts, Pray be satisfied; the lady could not have been in the least hurt.
I was surprised; for, though the voice was polite, even~ kind, people do not, at least in our country society, address a lady without an introduction. I answered civilly, of course, but it must have been with some stiffness of man ner, for the gentleman said.
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