Modern Art Painting

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"Don't talk so loud," she said a little sharply. "The lodger is not very well to-day. He's had a cold," she added hastily, "and during the last two or three days he hasn't been able to go out."
She wondered at her temerity, her - her hypocrisy, and that moment, those few words, marked an epoch in Ellen Bunting's life. It was the first time she had told a bold and deliberate lie. She was one of those women - there are many, many such - to whom there is a whole world of difference between the suppression of the truth and the utterance of an untruth.
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But Chandler paid no heed to her remarks. "Has Miss Daisy arrived?" he asked, in a lower voice.
She nodded. And then he went through into the room where the father and daughter were sitting.
"Well?" said Bunting, starting up. "Well, Joe? Now you can tell us all about that mysterious clue I suppose it'd be too good news to expect you to tell us they've caught him?"
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