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Thyrza

CHAPTER XX
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Just go into Kennington Road and back.' Thyrza shook her head.
'Not this morning.

I'm a little tired.' 'Yes, but it'll make you feel more cheerful, and you'll have an appetite for dinner, which I'm sure you haven't had for a week and more.

How ever you live on the few mouthfuls you eat is a wonder to me.
You ought to have half an hour's walk every day, indeed you ought.' It was sorely against her will to go forth, yet desire called to her from the sunlit ways.

Slowly down the stairs, slowly to the end of Walnut Tree Walk.
Look at that white billow of cloud on its fathomless ocean! Even now there were clouds like that high up over Eastbourne.

One such had hung above her as she drove with Mrs.Ormonde up Beachy Head.


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