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CHAPTER XXVIII.The Exposure of Stephanie
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At the same time the thought of readjusting her relations so that they would avoid disloyalty to Cowperwood was never further from Stephanie’s mind. Let no one quarrel with Stephanie Platow. She was an unstable1 chemical compound, artistic2 to her finger-tips, not understood or properly guarded by her family. Her interest in Cowperwood, his force and ability, was intense. So was her interest in Forbes Gurney—the atmosphere of poetry that enveloped3 him. She studied him curiously4 on the various occasions when they met, and, finding him bashful and recessive5, set out to lure6 him. She felt that he was lonely and depressed7 and poor, and her womanly capacity for sympathy naturally bade her be tender.
Her end was easily achieved. One night, when they were all out in Bliss8 Bridge’s single-sticker—a fast-sailing saucer—Stephanie and Forbes Gurney sat forward of the mast looking at the silver moon track which was directly ahead. The rest were in the cockpit “cutting up”—laughing and singing. It was very plain to all that Stephanie was becoming interested in Forbes Gurney; and since he was charming and she wilful9, nothing was done to interfere10 with them, except to throw an occasional jest their way. Gurney, new to love and romance, scarcely knew how to take his good fortune, how to begin. He told Stephanie of his home life in the wheat-fields of the Northwest, how his family had moved from Ohio when he was three, and how difficult were the
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1 unstable | |
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5 recessive | |
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6 lure | |
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8 bliss | |
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10 interfere | |
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11 labors | |
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15 innocence | |
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16 hoarsely | |
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17 ecstasy | |
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18 fully | |
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20 mingled | |
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21 speculations | |
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22 reciprocating | |
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24 reticence | |
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25 perfectly | |
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26 decided | |
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28 remarkable | |
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29 glistened | |
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30 thoroughly | |
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31 meditating | |
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32 scrap | |
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33 meditated | |
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34 persuasive | |
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35 pricked | |
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36 factotum | |
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37 uncertainty | |
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38 janitor | |
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39 speculatively | |
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40 peculiar | |
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41 noted | |
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42 enraged | |
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43 bland | |
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44 constructive | |
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45 smacked | |
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46 displacement | |
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47 exasperating | |
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48 climax | |
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49 investigation | |
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50 casually | |
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51 morbid | |
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52 geniality | |
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53 genial | |
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54 badinage | |
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55 enigma | |
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56 promiscuity | |
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57 ornamenting | |
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58 flare | |
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59 debonair | |
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60 genially | |
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61 muffled | |
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62 sarcastically | |
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63 conceal | |
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64 concealment | |
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65 defiant | |
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66 fixed | |
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67 nervously | |
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68 entirely | |
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69 liaison | |
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71 complacently | |
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72 scorching | |
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73 steadily | |
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74 jewelry | |
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75 jade | |
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76 mere | |
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77 harangue | |
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78 divan | |
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79 attested | |
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80 bosom | |
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81 naive | |
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82 distressed | |
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83 opposition | |
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84 clogged | |
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85 merge | |
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86 incompatible | |
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87 heed | |
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88 immoral | |
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89 promiscuous | |
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90 vile | |
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91 ardently | |
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