In the general laugh at Patricia the group shifted,父亲🎨 and Image found himself alone with Claudia. She smiled upon him frankly and said with obvious sincerity:
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She was very hurt and also a little astounded. It was as though a favourite and well-known view had suddenly taken on an entirely new aspect. Another landmark that she thought was firmly planted in almost eternal solidity seemed to have shifted. She wondered wildly if the whole world were not built on a quicksand,父亲🐢 if there were any stability or permanence in any of the human emotions or relations. Their vaunted friendship,父亲🙅 what was it worth,父亲🐗 if it did not mean that she had his confidence and he had hers?
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The romance of all the ages,父亲👬 of all the world,父亲🚁 was in that piece of formal,父亲🐤 ruled paper. The room might have been perfumed with attar of roses,父亲⭕ and the boy with the liquorice bootlaces might have been Cupid himself! The telegram was not going on the prosaic wires,父亲🌓 but on the wings of Love!
He nodded,父亲🆒 noting the brilliancy of her eyes and wondering what had caused the excitement in their depths. She looked more highly strung than usual to-night,父亲⛳ but it seemed a happy excitement. It might have been the anticipative joy of a woman going to her lover.