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Excerpt from The Travelling Thirds
Always independent of her fellow -mortals, and peculiarly of her present companions, she was a happy pagan at the moment, and meditating a solitary retreat to another grove of acacias down by the Saone, when her attention was claimed by Mr. Moulton.
Would you mind coming here a moment, Catalina?' he asked, in a voice whose roll and cadence told that he had led in family prayers these many years, if not in meeting.
After all, it is your suggestion, and I think you should present the case. I have done it very badly, and they don 't seem inclined to listen to me.
He smiled apologetically, but there was a faint twinkle in his eye which palliated the somewhat sanctimonious expression of the lower part of his face. Blond and cherubic in youth, his countenance had grown in dignity as time changed its tints to drab and gray, reclaimed the super¿uous ¿esh of his face, and drew the strong lines that are the half of a man's good looks. He, too, had his hands in his pockets, and he stood in front of his wife and daughters, who sat on a bench in the perfumed shade of the acacias.
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