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Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

CHAPTER IV
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Still, I rather admire your courage.

I wonder what this young fellow is like for whose sake you are prepared to lose so much; more than you think, maybe, for I had grown fond of you.

Well, good-bye, I'll see about your getting off.

There, don't think that I bear malice although I am so angry with you.

Write to me when you get into a tight place," and rising, she kissed her, rather roughly but not without affection, and flung out of the room like one who feared to trust herself there any longer.
On the evening of the following day Barbara, emerging from the carrier's cart at the blacksmith's corner at Eastwich, was met by a riotous throng of five energetic young sisters who nearly devoured her with kisses.
So happy was that greeting, indeed, that in it she almost forgot her sorrows.


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