"
"I know all about that girl," was the grim reply. "She has played
the very deuce with my friend Munson."
"Yes," replied Mrs. Alston, indignantly, "it was the most shameful
piece of coquetry I ever saw. She is a puzzle to me. To the
children and the old people in the house she is consideration and
kindness itself; but she appears to regard men of your years as
legitimate game and is perfectly remorseless. So beware! She is
dangerous, invulnerable as you imagine yourself to be. She will
practice her wiles upon you if you give her half a chance, and her
art has much more than her pretty face to enforce it. She is
unusually clever."
Ackland's slight shrug was so contemptuous that his cousin was
nettled, and she thought, "I wish the girl could disturb his
complacent equanimity just a little. It vexes one to see a man so
indifferent; it's a slight to woman;" and she determined to give
Miss Van Tyne the vantage-ground of an introduction at the first
opportunity.
And this occurred before the evening was over. To her surprise
Ackland entered into an extended conversation with the enemy.
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