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Simon the Jester

CHAPTER IX
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For the moment he had forgotten his enchantress who, understanding nothing of platforms and planks and electioneering machinery, smiled with pensive politeness at the fire.

Here was the Dale that I knew and loved, boyish, impetuous, slangy, enthusiastic.

His dark eyes flashed, and he threw back his head and laughed, as he enunciated his brilliant ideas for capturing the constituency.
"When I was working for you, I made love to half the women in the place.
You never knew that, you dear old stick.

Now I'm going in on my own account I'll make love to the whole crowd.

You won't mind, Lola, will you?
There's safety in numbers.


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