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If Captain Anthony (Roderick) had been a pedestrian it would
have been sufficient; but he was not. Still, in the afternoon, he went
sometimes for a slow casual stroll, by himself of course, the children
having definitely cold-shouldered him, and his only sister being busy
with that inflammatory book which was to blaze upon the world a year or
more afterwards. It seems however that she was capable of detaching her
eyes from her task now and then, if only for a moment, because it was
from that garret fitted out for a study that one afternoon she observed
her brother and Flora de Barral coming down the road side by side. They
had met somewhere accidentally (which of them crossed the other's path,
as the saying is, I don't know), and were returning to tea together. She
noticed that they appeared to be conversing without constraint.
"I had the simplicity to be pleased," Mrs. Fyne commented with a dry
little laugh. "Pleased for both their sakes." Captain Anthony shook off
his indolence from that day forth, and accompanied Miss Flora frequently
on her morning walks.


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