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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE OTHER WOMAN Young Latimer stood on one of the lower steps of the hall stairs, leaning with one hand on the broad railing and smiling down at her. She had followed him from the drawing-room and had stopped at the entrance, drawing the curtains behind her, and making, unconsciously, a dark background for her head and figure. He thought he had never seen her look more beautiful, nor that cold, fine air of thorough breeding about her which was her greatest beauty to him, more strongly in evidence. Well, sir, she said, why don't you go? He shifted his position slightly and leaned more comfortably upon the railing, as though he intended to discuss it with her at some length. How can I go, he said, argumentatively, with you standing there?looking like that? I really believe, the girl said, slowly, that he is afraid; yes, he is afraid. And you always said, she added, turning to him, you were so brave. Oh, I am sure I never said that, exclaimed the young man, calmly. ''I may be brave, infact, I am quite brave, but I never said I was. Some one must have told you. Yes, he is afraid, she said, nodding her head to the tall clock across the hall, he is temporizing and trying to save time. And afraid of a man, too, and such a good man who would not hurt any one. You know a bishop is always a very difficult sort of a person, he said, and when he happens to be your father, the combination is just a bit awful. Isn't it now? And especially when one means to ask him for his daughter. You know it isn't like asking him to let one smoke in his study. If I loved a girl, she said, shaking her head and smiling up at him, I wouldn't be afraid of the whole world; that's what they say in books, isn't it? I would be so bold and happy. Oh, well, I'...
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