His Other Wife: A Novel — page 307: what you’re looking at

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LEDA’'S COUP D'ETAT. 299° out for a little walk in the lime grove. ‘They axed me to listen for his bell till they gets back.” : A sudden light kindled in Leda’s languid eyes. She rose quietly, and said: ‘Roxana, I will go and speak to him. You keep watch at the front door, and rap lightly at the library when you see the two ladies returning from their walk. I do not care to meet shem,” CHAPTER XXXIII, LEDA’S COUP D’ETAT, Negroes have a native love of intrigue, and more quickly discern an ulterior purpose in any significant duty to which they may be assigned than more intelli- gent beings. Easily guessing that her mistress might wish an unin- terrupted interview with the young gentleman, whose former devotion to both Mrs. and Miss Morgan was still vivid in Roxana’s memory, she took her stand upon the front piazza, just where her tall form and white kerchief could be plainly visible to the,two ladies who paced slowly to and fro under the limes, and who, seeing her there within easy reach of the invalid’s voice, would doubtless prolong their stroll in the fresh, sweet air of the spring EComichoo <Si: (E(o) im