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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER VII
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What's come to me ?' He sang to 'Mary of Ellingmere' and another maid of some place, and a loud song of Britons.
It was startling to me to wake up to twilight in the open air and silence, for I was unaware that I had fallen asleep.

The girl had roused me, and we crept down from the cart.

Horse and farmer were quite motionless in a green hollow beside the roadway.

Looking across fields and fir plantations, I beheld a house in the strange light of the hour, and my heart began beating; but I was overcome with shyness, and said to myself, 'No, no, that's not Riversley; I'm sure it isn't'; though the certainty of it was, in my teeth, refuting me.

I ran down the fields to the park and the bright little river, and gazed.


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