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Three Men in a Boat

CHAPTER XII
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People in Buckinghamshire would have come upon them unexpectedly when they were mooning round Windsor and Wraysbury, and have exclaimed, "Oh! you here!" and Henry would have blushed and said, "Yes; he'd just come over to see a man;" and Anne would have said, "Oh, I'm so glad to see you! Isn't it funny?
I've just met Mr.Henry VIII.
in the lane, and he's going the same way I am." Then those people would have gone away and said to themselves: "Oh! we'd better get out of here while this billing and cooing is on.

We'll go down to Kent." And they would go to Kent, and the first thing they would see in Kent, when they got there, would be Henry and Anne fooling round Hever Castle.
"Oh, drat this!" they would have said.

"Here, let's go away.

I can't stand any more of it.

Let's go to St.Albans--nice quiet place, St.
Albans." [Picture: River scene] And when they reached St.Albans, there would be that wretched couple, kissing under the Abbey walls.


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