Alpha Book

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contrast had become the sharper, too, since she had awakened to the
admiration of other men. And the awakening was only a half-convinced
happiness mingled with shy surprise that the wise world should really
deem her so lovely.
"A red-headed girl," she said teasingly; "I thought you had better taste
than--than--"
"Than to think you a raving beauty?"
"Oh," she said, "you don't think that!"
As a matter of fact he himself had become aware of it so suddenly that
he had no time to think very much about it. It was rather strange, too,
that he had not always been aware of it; or was it partly the mellow
light from the lamp tinting her till she glowed and shimmered like a
young sorceress, sitting so straight there in her turquoise silk and
misty lace?
Delicate luminous shadow banded her eyes; her hair, partly in shadow,
too, became a sombre mystery in rose-gold.
"Whatever _are_ you staring at?" she laughed. "Me? I don't believe it!
Never have you so honoured me with your fixed attention, Captain Selwyn.


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