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THE SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE.
CHAPTER III.
Arthur was gone. He brought his wife to Pleasance and passed one day there with her, in order that he might fancy her way of life while he was absent; and then departed, having promised positively not to dance with Madame von Moerkerke.
"I will not as you make a point of it; but I cannot think why you are jealous of that yea and nay woman, who has but the one merit of being well dressed."
"Oh, Arthur dear, remember that ball at L——— House, where you devoted yourself to her, and never spoke to me at all."
"Of course I did not, for remember the morning of that day, when you let that fellow
