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This is just a little too much. Mona gives way. Standing well back from her butter, she lets her pretty rounded bare arms fall lightly before her to their full length, and as her fingers clasp each other she turns to Rodney and breaks into a peal of laughter sweet as music.,Perhaps, could she only know how charmingly becoming this style of headdress is to her flower-like face, she would not have blushed at all.,"Sure of course," says Mona. "Why, I used to ride the colts barebacked at home.",But Mona's eyes see nothing but one object only.,"Ah," said the old woman, "has our son-in-law been generous and given us something nice to eat?","I can't," says Mona; "it would be very unfair; and besides," petulantly, "it is all too absurd. Why, if Mr. Moore were to ask me to marry him ten thousand times again, I should never say anything but 'no.'","I do not wish to lay claim to anything," says Mona, throwing up her head with a little proud gesture,—"least of all to what does not by right belong to me. To be Mrs. Geoffrey is all I ask.","You told the duke who you were?" breaks in Lady Rodney at this moment, who is in one of her worst moods.,That is the part you mean, is it not? I know all that poem very nearly by heart.","I am glad you know that," says Mona. Then, going nearer to Violet, she lays her hand upon her arm and regards her earnestly. The tears are still glistening in her eyes.,She looks at him as she says this, fearlessly, honestly, and without a suspicion of coquetry.,With this she inclines her head, and without another word goes back by the way she has come..