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Erema

CHAPTER XXVII
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Trust me." "Jemima!" I cried.

"Oh, Mr.Shovelin, save me from ever being called Jemima! Rather would I never be baptized at all." "I am no judge of names," he answered, smiling, as he shook hands with us; "but, unless I am a very bad judge of faces, you will be called just what you please." "And I please to be called what my father called me.

It may be unlucky, as a gentleman told me, who did not know how to pronounce it.

However, it will do very well for me.

You wish to see me, then, to-morrow, Mr.
Shovelin ?" "If you please; but later in the day, when I am more at leisure.


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