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"Mother sent me! -- I came down for her and father! " began Helen Carruth abruptly. Then she thought how that sounded -- as if she need be supposed to apologize for or explain the circumstance that she happened to find one of her father's old students sunning himself upon a given portion of the New England coast; and she blushed again. When she saw the sudden, upward motion of Bayard's heavy eyelids, she could have set her pretty teeth through her tongue, for vexation at her little _faux pas_. From sheer embarrassment, she laughed it off.
"I haven't heard anybody laugh like that since I came to Windover," said Bayard, drawing a long breath. "Do give me an encore!"