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"And, my dear," she said, concluding the account of the adventure to
Mrs. Ruthven that afternoon at Sherry's, "I've never been so roundly
abused and so soundly trounced in my life as I was this blessed morning
by that red-headed novice! Oh, my! Oh, la! I could have screamed with
laughter at my own undoing."
"It's what you deserved," said Alixe, intensely annoyed, although
Rosamund had not told her all that she had so kindly and gratuitously
denied concerning her relations with Selwyn. "It was sheer effrontery of
you, Rosamund, to put such notions into the head of a child and stir
her up into taking a fictitious interest in Philip Selwyn which I
know--which is perfectly plain to m--to anybody never existed!"
"Of course it existed!" retorted Rosamund, delighted now to worry Alixe.
"She didn't know it; that is all. It really was simple charity to wake
her up. It's a good match, too, and so obviously and naturally
inevitable that there's no harm in playing prophetess.


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