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"For the last three years we have gone abroad in the middle of
October, and returned for Christmas and the New Year," she finished,
"but we have made up our minds to remain in England this year. Why,
here comes the truant, and it is actually nearly luncheon time."
Cedric, flushed and panting, flung himself down beside her.


CHAPTER XIV
"YOU DO SAY SUCH ODD THINGS"

Womanhood should be the consecration of earth.
--U. A. Taylor
In the region of domestic affections a new and
ennobling motive came from Bethlehem--"that I may
please God."
--Knox Little.

Elizabeth put on an air of great severity as she regarded the
culprit.
"Rotherwood is about a mile and a quarter from our gate," she
observed, apostrophising some midges that were dancing in a sunbeam
overhead. "You could walk there easily in twenty minutes. It is now
one o'clock, and you have been away exactly three hours and a half,"
and here she consulted the miniature watch that she wore as an
ornament as well as for utility.


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