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Wessex Tales

CHAPTER VIII--A WATER-SIDE HERMIT
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I will open it from the inside, as I shan't come home to dinner till he's cut down.

Good-night.

Be punctual; and if you don't want anybody to know 'ee, wear a veil.

Ah--once I had such a daughter as you!' She went away, and climbed the path above, to assure herself that she would be able to find the wicket next day.

Its outline was soon visible to her--a narrow opening in the outer wall of the prison precincts.


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