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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XXII
15/23

I must be free, though I vex the world's watchdogs .-- So, Danvers, you are noticing how thoroughly Frenchwomen do their work.' Danvers replied with a slight mincing: 'They may, ma'am; but they chatter chatter so.' 'The result proves that it is not a waste of energy.

They manage their fowls too.' 'They've no such thing as mutton, ma'am.' Dacier patriotically laughed.
'She strikes the apology for wealthy and leisurely landlords,' Diana said.
Danvers remarked that the poor fed meagrely in France.

She was not convinced of its being good for them by hearing that they could work on it sixteen hours out of the four and twenty.
Mr.Percy Dacier's repast was furnished to him half an hour later.

At sunset Diana, taking Danvers beside her, walked with him to the line of the country road bearing on Caen.

The wind had sunk.


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