The book The Paladin: As Beheld By a Woman of Temperament was written by author Vachell Horace Annesley Here you can read free online of The Paladin: As Beheld By a Woman of Temperament book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Paladin: As Beheld By a Woman of Temperament a good or bad book?
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Twice Harry took Esther's hand in his. But he refrained from kissing it! At his touch the siren trembled. By the THE PALADIN 1«7 light of the stars he caught a glimpse of a heaving bosom. " If life could always flow on like this," she mur- mured. At that, fearing to be too rash, unable to reply with a phrase which would satisfy the exigencies of an en- chanting moment and at the same time not arouse ex- pectations which a chivalrous gentleman might not be able to satisfy, our paladin had replie...d with, we fear, banality : ** It's getting rather chilly. Perhaps we ought to go indoors.'* Next morning she blushed when he appeared, and for the first time exhibited constraint in his presence and a nervousness which he divined he alone could put to flight. He said boldly : " I slept badly," and she replied : " So did I." Then they sighed. Each dreaded speech, and yet silence maddened him. For Esther saw how it was with him and knew that she could pay her debt to her lover: every shilling in the pound, and compound interest beside !
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