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Beyond the City

CHAPTER IV
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Not that I care a straw about dignity, you know, but I should not like to hurt the old lady's feelings.
"Your aunt's ?" "Yes, my aunt's.

My parents were killed in the Mutiny, you know, when I was a baby, and she has looked after me ever since.

She has been very good to me.

I'm sorry to leave her." "But why should you leave her ?" They had reached the garden gate, and the girl leaned her racket upon the top of it, looking up with grave interest at her big white-flanneled companion.
"It's, Browning," said he.
"What!" "Don't tell my aunt that I said it"-- he sank his voice to a whisper--"I hate Browning." Clara Walker rippled off into such a merry peal of laughter that he forgot the evil things which he had suffered from the poet, and burst out laughing too.
"I can't make him out," said he.

"I try, but he is one too many.


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