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He found it hard to assume lightness with those shrewd old eyes searchingly upon him.
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Then all the assumed lightness and carelessness died from his manner.
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Hal felt it useless to prevaricate, and so she said, with assumed lightness:
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When he had gone Bassett turned to Dick with assumed lightness.
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At last, she said directly, with assumed lightness:
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As he did not evince the slightest curiosity, she grew impatient at last, and asked with assumed lightness:
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With assumed lightness she replied:
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Heinzman laughed with assumed lightness.
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"The way other people do it," Rachael said with assumed lightness.
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"Well, I am thirty, myself," said the Chevalier with assumed lightness.
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"Then we will be neighbors," he said with assumed lightness; "at least half-way neighbors.
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"Now for our get-away," he replied with assumed lightness.
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"His name is Hambright," Buckton answered, with assumed lightness.
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"Well, it's a question I'm not clever enough to answer," returned Anstice, with assumed lightness.
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He said nothing further, however, and when she spoke it was with an assumed lightness and cheerfulness which she was far from feeling.
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"Everyone," echoed Archie, with an assumed lightness.