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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], 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: CHAPTER XII. " Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love." Much Ado About Nothing. " I Should think if we are going to give our dance at all, it ought to be soon," says Dulce, with a shrug and a somewhat listless little yawn. "So we ought," says Dicky Browne briskly. It seems the most natural thing in the world that he should use the first person plural, and that he should appear to be the chief promoter of the dance in question. " We've been talking of it a considerable lot, you know," he goes on confidentially, " and they will all think it a dodgeon your part if you don't give it within the next fortnight." "A dodge!" says Miss Blount, very justly incensed. " What dodge ? " "Well, look here," says Dicky " there once was a fellow " He breaks off at this interesting juncture, and, fixing his glass in his best eye, stares at a figure coming slowly towards them from the house. They all follow his gaze, and find themselves criticising the approaching form in a vague, surprised fashion. " Great hat! look at Julia ! " says Dicky at last, giving way to speech that will not be repressed. The exclamation is quite in keeping with the scene. Julia, in a headgear of the style usually described as a Rubens, of the very largest description, comes simpering up to them, filled with thebelief that now, if ever, she is looking her very best. " Great" is the word for it. She is indeed all that. " My dear Julia, where have you been?" says Dulce, ignoring the hat. " Searching every room in the house for that last book of Oui'da's," says Julia promptly, who has in reality been posing before a mirror in her own room, crowned with the Rubens. "I'm always losing my things, you know and my way my boat, for example, and my train, and ...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

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