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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XV
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And so, will you not come, sirs, up when a way is to be shown to you?
It is my question.' Temple thanked her for the kindness of the offer.
I was hesitating, half conscious of surprise that I should ever be hesitating in doubt of taking the direction toward my father.

Hearing Temple's boldness I thanked her also, and accepted.

Then she said, bowing: 'I beg you will cover your heads.' We passed the huge groom bolt upright on his towering horse; he raised two fingers to the level of his eyebrows in the form of a salute.
Temple murmured: 'I shouldn't mind entering the German Army,' just as after our interview with Captain Bulsted he had wished to enter the British Navy.
This was no more than a sign that he was highly pleased.

For my part delight fluttered the words in my mouth, so that I had to repeat half I uttered to the attentive ears of our gracious new friend and guide: 'Ah,' she said, 'one does sthink one knows almost all before experiment.
I am ashamed, yet I will talk, for is it not so?
experiment is a school.
And you, if you please, will speak slow.

For I say of you English gentlemen, silk you spin from your lips; it is not as a language of an alphabet; it is pleasant to hear when one would lull, but Italian can do that, and do it more--am I right?
soft?
'Bella Vista, lovely view,' said I.
'Lovely view,' she repeated.
She ran on in the most musical tongue, to my thinking, ever heard: 'And see my little pensioners' poor cottage, who are out up to Lovely View.


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