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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER XI
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I like it better than London.

I like it better than any place I have been in since I left school." The Princess looked at her a little curiously.
"I wonder," she said, "whether I ought to be looking after you a little more closely, my child.

What do you do on the marshes there all the time?
Do you talk with this Mr.Andrew ?" "I went with him in his boat this morning," Jeanne answered composedly.
"It was very pleasant.

We had a delightful sail." The Princess shrugged her shoulders.
"Well," she said, "one must amuse oneself, and I suppose it is only reasonable that we should all choose different ways.

I think I need not tell even such a child as you that men are the same all the world over, and that even a fisherman, if he is encouraged, may be guilty sometimes of an impertinence." Jeanne raised her eyebrows.
"I have not the slightest fear," she said, "that Mr.Andrew would ever be guilty of anything of the sort.


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