The Priceless Pearl - English Web Novel
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The Priceless Pearl - 16 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
"Is Uncle Anthony in love with you--like Mr. Williams?"
Ah, Pearl knew what that meant: Antonia had taken a long drive with her mother and Miss
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The Priceless Pearl - 17 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
The surprise was like a physical blow, and yet no one at first supposed that the pearls were actually gone. Mrs. Conway, as so often happens to anyone who has sustained a loss, was instantly severely lectured by her three children on her habitual
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The Priceless Pearl - 18 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
Human nature being as it is, it is probable that the loss of the pearls was nothing to Edna Conway in comparison with the satisfaction of being able to telegraph her brother that his priceless Pearl was suspected of having stolen
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The Priceless Pearl - 19 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
Then Anthony came out of his room, looking handsome and sleek and brown and very well dressed in blue serge; and they went out and had luncheon together, and then started at once for their drive of a hundred miles in Anthony's
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The Priceless Pearl - 20 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
Nothing interested Anthony more than to discuss the problems of life with his niece, but at the moment his mind was not sufficiently disengaged. He was sorry to interrupt her, but he was obliged to go and have a few words with her
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The Priceless Pearl - 21 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
Dyed! What a spiteful goose Cora Wellington was!
Then Durland came down the steps.
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The Priceless Pearl - 22 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
Cora was all eagerness and cordiality.
"And what has Anthony discovered about her?" were her first words--spoken to Edna, but directed toward
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The Priceless Pearl - 23 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
That was just the way it began.
At the sight of that letter in Mrs. Conway's hands, a storm of emotion swept over Pearl, even before she remembered just
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The Priceless Pearl - 24 - Alice Duer Miller - Web Novel
"That's absolutely untrue," said Edna.
He did not allow her to ruffle him.
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