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Title: The Champdoce mystery
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Gaboriau, Émile, 1832-1873
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
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morning I took the necessary steps tore lease the person in whom you are interested. Go and meet her. What do you think of that? So off I ran to find Zora, and here we are. André did not pay much attention to Gaston, but was engaged in watching Zora, who was looking round the studio. She went up to Sabines portrait,and was about to draw the curtain, when André ex-claimed, — Excuse me, said he; I must put this picture to dry. And as the portrait stood on a movable easel, he wheeled it into the adjoining room. And now, said Gaston, I want you to come and breakfast with us to celebrate Zoras happy release. I am much obliged to you, but it is impossible. I must get on with my work. Yes, yes; work is an excellent thing, but just now you must go and dress. I assure you that it is quite out of the question. I cannot leave the studio yet. Gaston paused for a moment in deep thought. I have it, said he triumphantly. You will not come to breakfast; then breakfast shall come to you. I am off to order it.
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ALL AT ONCE HIS DOOR BURST OPEN, AND A HURRICANE OF SILKS, VELVETS, FEATHERS, AND LACE WHIRLED IN GASTONS DILEMMA 309 André ran after him, but Gaston was too quick, and he returned to the studio in anything but an amiable temper. Zora noticed his evident annoyance. He always goes on in this absurd way, said she, with a shrug of her pretty shoulders, and thinks himself so clever and witty, bah! Her tone disclosed such contempt for Gaston that André looked at her in perplexed surprise. What do you look so astonished at? It is easy tosee you do not know much of him. All his friends are just like him; if you listen to them for half an hour at a stretch, you get regularly sick. When I think of the terrible evenings that I have spent in their company, I feel ready to die with yawning; and as she spoke, she suited the action to the word. Ah ! if he really loved me ! added she. Love you! Why, he adores you. Zora made a little gesture of contempt which Toto Chupin might have envied. Do you think so?

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