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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER VII
10/24

It will be the worse for you.

Forgive me--but we are in such a hurry.

Whoa! whoa! pony." "You always used to be so polite, Sir, that you quite surprise me.

And those guns look so dreadful! My father would be quite astonished to see me not even allowed to go down to the sea, but hurried back here, as if the French had landed." "How can I help it, if your pony runs away so ?" For Mary all this time had been cleverly contriving to increase and exaggerate her pony's fear, and so brought the gunners for a long way up the Dike, without giving them any time to spy at all about.

She knew that this was wicked from a loyal point of view; not a bit the less she did it.


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