His Other Wife: A Novel — page 26: what you’re looking at

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18: THE. WIDOWS CONFESSION. ruddy lashes quivered alittle, then swept upward from the purple warmth of humid eyes that seemed still pursuing dreams, so far off their tremulous regard. She did a very unromantic thing, dear reader—she yawned, and stretched her splendid arms above her head, and then rose on her elbow, wide awake, and curiously scanning the stranger who stood before her. ‘Well, sir?” she said, half smiling, half annoyed, CHAPTER II. THE WIDOWS CONFESSION. . The singular self-possession of the young woman in- stantly relieved the visitor of the acute embarrassment he had felt a moment previous to her question, and in a few words Mr. Warren explained his intrusion upon her after- noon nap. | With a wondrous serpentine movement, in which scarcely any muscular action was visible, the young lady rose to her feet, as she said, laughing softly: ‘‘T shall have to be more careful how I lie down to read in the parlors. We seldom have a visitor: at this hour, and this place is the atillest and coolest—and accls dents will happen,” — ; . ~ cComichooks.co