A Daughter of Delilah — page 87: what you’re looking at

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78 THE TONGUE OF THE TEMPTRESS. ‘Tam almost sorry that Aunt J udith has come!’’ he re- plied. ‘‘I shall feel that some one is spying upon us.”’ She laughed merrily. “Hight o’clock! I did not think that we had been out so long.’”’ | “The time has gone on fairy wings. It is ever so when we are happy!”’ He pulled up the ponies, and assisted Isabel to alight, saying: ‘IT will take these animals to the stables. Expect me back again in twenty minutes. Au revoir!”’ Isabel kissed the tips of her fingers to him, and he did not remove his eyes from her until she had vanished within the portals of the building. ‘“She is like some choice exotic,’’ he thought. ‘*No won- der that men worship at her shrine. It is perhaps best that this ogre of an aunt has come upon the scene to take care of one so beautiful. I shall never feel satisfied until she is mine, lest she be spirited away!’’ The very suggestion of losing her sent a deadly chill into his heart. : Having surrendered the ponies and the carriage, he was taken back to Park avenue in a cab, and went through a formal introduction to the aunt of his goddess, who eyed him unobserved behind her smoke-colored spectacles. ‘Jove!’ thought Alston; ‘fone would think it impossible for this tall, masculine-looking woman to be a blood relative of my goddess!’’ Aunt Judith retired after supper, and Edgar was not agreeably surprised to discover that Isabel Russell could Eomichbooks (E(0 =<)