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St. Ives

CHAPTER VII--SWANSTON COTTAGE
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'There's a child among the artichokes,' she said.
'The Plagues of Egyp'! _I'll_ see to them!' cried the gardener truculently, and with a hurried waddle disappeared among the evergreens.
That moment she turned, she came running towards me, her arms stretched out, her face incarnadined for the one moment with heavenly blushes, the next pale as death.

'Monsieur de.

Saint-Yves!' she said.
'My dear young lady,' I said, 'this is the damnedest liberty--I know it! But what else was I to do ?' 'You have escaped ?' said she.
'If you call this escape,' I replied.
'But you cannot possibly stop there!' she cried.
'I know it,' said I.

'And where am I to go ?' She struck her hands together.

'I have it!' she exclaimed.


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