Excerpt: ...once more alone in the field, and now any onlooker could perceive that it was not the desire to obtain the pretty ornaments, but the wish for victory which animated both girls. When the bids rose above ten guineas Rosalind's face assumed a ghastly hue, but she was now far too angry with Maggie to pause or consider the fact that she was offering more money for the pink coral than she possessed in the world. The bids still went higher and higher. There was intense excitement in the room; all the noisy babel ceased ...
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Excerpt: ...once more alone in the field, and now any onlooker could perceive that it was not the desire to obtain the pretty ornaments, but the wish for victory which animated both girls. When the bids rose above ten guineas Rosalind's face assumed a ghastly hue, but she was now far too angry with Maggie to pause or consider the fact that she was offering more money for the pink coral than she possessed in the world. The bids still went higher and higher. There was intense excitement in the room; all the noisy babel ceased. No sound was heard but the eager voices of the two who were cruelly fighting each other and the astonished tones of the young auctioneer. Twelve, thirteen, fourteen pounds were reached. Maggie's bid was fourteen pounds. "Guineas!" screamed Rose with a weak sort of gasp. Maggie turned and looked at her, then walked slowly back to her place by Priscilla's side. The coral belonged to Rose Merton, and she had four guineas too little to pay for it. CHAPTER XVIII A BLACK SELF AND A WHITE SELF "IT is quite true, Maggie," said Nancy Banister. "It is about the auction. Yes, there is no doubt about that. What possessed you to go?" Maggie Oliphant was standing in the center of her own room with an open letter in her hand. Nancy was reading it over her shoulder: KATHARINE HALL, "Dec. 2. "Miss Eccleston and Miss Heath request Miss Oliphant and Miss Peel to present themselves in Miss Eccleston's private sitting-room this evening at seven o'clock." "That is all," said Maggie. "It sounds as solemn and unfriendly as if one were about to be tried for some capital offense." "It's the auction, of course," repeated Nancy. "Those girls thought they had kept it so quiet, but some one must have 'peached, ' I suppose, to curry favor. Whatever made you go, Maggie? You know you have never mixed yourself up with that Day, and Merton, and Marsh set. As to that poor Polly Singleton, there's no harm in her, but she's a perfect madcap. What could have possessed you to...
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