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Ah, don't stand here waiting! Go back now! Go back at once!
Don't you know that you MUST?"
Jane looked into those shining eyes. Something she saw in them
excused the brusque command of his tone. Without a word, she quietly
mounted the steps and walked across the platform to the piano.
People were still applauding, and redoubled their demonstrations of
delight as she appeared; but Jane took her seat at the instrument
without giving them a thought.
She was experiencing a very curious and unusual sensation. Never
before in her whole life had she obeyed a peremptory command. In her
childhood's days, Fraulein and Miss Jebb soon found out that they
could only obtain their desires by means of carefully worded
requests, or pathetic appeals to her good feelings and sense of
right. An unreasonable order, or a reasonable one unexplained,
promptly met with a point-blank refusal. And this characteristic
still obtained, though modified by time; and even the duchess, as a
rule, said "please" to Jane.


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