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THE LOVER


him—well, they were scarcely entertaining; he had been there long enough.

They saw him to the gate and stood together under the laburnum tree, watching him down the road. Richard's arm crept round Cicely's shoulders. "But this, ah God, is love!" he quoted.

And Herbert had forgotten them before he reached the corner.

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