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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER VII
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In a fit of horror I thought, 'I 've forgotten how to walk!' Summoning my manful resolution, I made the attempt to step across the children swaddled in matting and straw and old gowns or petticoats.

The necessity for doing it with a rush seized me after the first step.

I pitched over one little bundle, right on to the figure of a sleeping woman.

All she did was to turn round, murmuring, 'Naughty Jackie.' My companion pulled me along gravely, and once in the air, with a good breath of it in my chest, I felt tall and strong, and knew what had occurred.

The tent where I had slept struck me as more curious than my own circumstances.


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