[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER VII 4/43
I called to her.
'You're like a cow,' and she showed her teeth, bidding me not say that. 'A cow! a cow!' I repeated, in my superior pleasure. She spun out in a breath, 'If you say that, I 'll run away with every bit of your clothes, and you'll come out and run about naked, you will.' 'Now I float,' was my answer, 'now I dive'; and when I came up she welcomed me with a big bright grin. A smart run in the heat dried me.
I dressed, finding half my money on the grass.
She asked me to give her one of those bits-a shilling.
I gave her two, upon which she asked me, invitingly, if ever I tossed.
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