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Erema

CHAPTER XXXVII
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And when I come round I went off to his lordship, as if I had heared his bell ring.

All of us knew better than to speak till him beginning, for he were not what they now call 'halfable,' but very much to the contrary.

So he says, 'You door-skulker, what do you want there ?' And I see that he got his hot leg up, certain to fly to bad language.
According, I asked, with my breath in my hand, if he pleased to see any young man there just now, by reason that such likes had been observated going out in some direction.

But his lordship roared to me to go in another direction, not fit for young ladies.

My old lord was up to every word of English; but his present lordship is the hopposite extreme." "Is that all you have to tell me, Stixon?
Did you never see that fearful man again?
Did you never even hear of him ?" "Never, miss, never! And to nobody but you have I ever told all as I told now.


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