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At eight that evening Miss Stanley tapped at Ann Veronica’s bedroom door. “I’ve brought you up some dinner, Vee,” she said. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceilin
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At eight that evening Miss Stanley tapped at Ann Veronica’s bedroom door. “I’ve brought you up some dinner, Vee,” she said. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceilin
At last the evening was over, and Capes and his wife had gone down to see Mr. Stanley and his sister into a taxicab, an…
They received the guests in their pretty little hall with genuine effusion. Miss Stanley threw aside a black cloak to r…
About four years and a quarter later—to be exact, it was four years and four months—Mr. and Mrs. Capes stood side by si…
They sat for a time without speaking a word, in an enormous shining globe of mutual satisfaction. “Well,” said Capes, …
“To think,” he cried, “you are ten years younger than I!... There are times when you make me feel a little thing at you…
“All sorts of things we’re going to do,” said Capes; “all sorts of times we’re going to have. Sooner or later we’ll cer…
They found themselves next day talking love to one another high up on some rocks above a steep bank of snow that overhu…
As they came back from that day’s climb—it was up the Mittaghorn—they had to cross a shining space of wet, steep rocks …
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