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"You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every cause to be."
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"Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly.
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"Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't fall down and do a faint right there before the altar."
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"Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave the room while you explain this matter?"
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"If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner.
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