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"Thank you, Lady Meg," said Jen, cordially. "I congratulate you on your presence of mind, and on your courage." "Now for a sight of the dislocated gentleman," said Elinor gayly. "And then for the great event." "I wonder who it could have been," they both murmured as they went upstairs to their rooms..
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Griffin yawned elaborately and then addressed Margaret Howes with lifted eyebrows. I don't intend to run any risk of losing my friends that way, and I want them to have all the enjoyment they can get out of it. I'm going to serve out doses of excitement until the dear old place is running as it did when it was a two-year old. Why get annoyed when people are interested in you? It's a compliment, after all, and gives them more to think about. I remembered the two trunks I had brought home with me, and hugged my knees up under my chin with pleasure at the thought of the town-talk they contained. "I know something of most things," assented the doctor. "But I confess I take but little interest in African barbarities." So far the reader may wonder at the constituent elements of this story. African witchcraft, mysterious strangers, and barbaric women seem to be out of place when set in the sober framework of an English provincial town. But romance is not dependent upon landscape or on surroundings for its occurrence: it is to be found everywhere, and very often in the most unlikely places. Here, for instance, by some trick of Fate, certain people had come together, certain passions had been aroused, and now that the drama had been set in motion, it seemed likely that it would play itself out to a tragical conclusion. Tragical, certainly; for herein the elements of comedy seem to be wanting. But then Fate is so pessimistic..
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