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  Their joint study of her dancing-card did not help them out

  A lively matron, of as youthful a temperament as the lively girls she brought in her train, burst upon them

  “She shook her head, and said, … ‘Nobody has been here, except—’ ”

  “No burglar could have missed me if he had wanted an easy mark”

  “ ‘You shall not say that!’ ”

  “She glared at editha. ‘What you got that black on for?’ ”