The Danger Mark
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Chambers Robert William. The Danger Mark
CHAPTER I. THE SEAGRAVES
CHAPTER II. IN TRUST
CHAPTER III. THE THRESHOLD
CHAPTER IV. THE YEAR OF DISCRETION
CHAPTER V. ROYA-NEH
CHAPTER VI. ADRIFT
CHAPTER VII. TOGETHER
CHAPTER VIII. AN AFTERGLOW
CHAPTER IX. CONFESSION
CHAPTER X. DUSK
CHAPTER XI. FÊTE GALANTE
CHAPTER XII. THE LOVE OF THE GODS
CHAPTER XIII. AMBITIONS AND LETTERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE PROPHETS
CHAPTER XV. DYSART
CHAPTER XVI. THROUGH THE WOODS
CHAPTER XVII. THE DANGER MARK
CHAPTER XVIII. BON CHIEN
CHAPTER XIX. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CHAPTER XX. IN SEARCH OF HERSELF
CHAPTER XXI. THE GOLDEN HOURS
CHAPTER XXII. CLOUDY MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXIII. SINE DIE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE PROLOGUE ENDS
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The enfranchisement of the Seagrave twins proceeded too slowly to satisfy their increasing desire for personal liberty and their fast-growing impatience of restraint.
Occasionally, a few carefully selected and assorted children were permitted to visit them in relays, and play in the nursery for limited periods without the personal supervision of Kathleen or the nurses; but no serious innovation was attempted, no radical step taken without authority from old Remsen Tappan, the trust officer of the great Half Moon Trust Company.
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Confused, she continued to laugh lightly, adding: "I believe I was afraid of you at first. Ought I to be, still? You know more than I do—you know different kinds of things: your face and voice and manner show it. I feel humble and ignorant in the presence of so distinguished a European artist."
They were laughing together now without a trace of constraint; and she was aware that his interest in her was unfeigned and unmistakably the interest of a man for a woman, that he was looking at her as other men had now begun to look at her, speaking as other men spoke, frankly interested in her as a woman, finding her agreeable to look at and talk to.
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