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Her answer was altogether astonishing; she leant back in the boat and looked him full in the face. A quick flush tinged her own, and the incomparable eyebrows were raised and arched; but underneath there was an honest tenderness which Olivia was not the girl to conceal.
"Was that your water-lilies? " said she; but this was not the astonishing speech. He had lured her afloat on impudently false pretences; she had a right to twit him with that.