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A Terrible Temptation

CHAPTER IX
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No, not for all the pheasants in the world.

I'll try and think of some other way.

I should like to see the place.

_May_ I ?" "Yes, my lady, and welcome." "How shall I get to it, sir ?" "You can ride to the 'Woodman's Rest,' my lady, and it is scarce a stone's-throw from there; but 'tis baddish traveling for the likes of you." She appointed an hour, rode with her groom to the public-house, and thence was conducted through bush, through brier, to the place where her husband had been so annoyed.
Moss's comments became very intelligible to her the moment she saw the place.

She said very little, however, and rode home.
Next day she blushed high, and asked Sir Charles for a hundred pounds to spend upon herself.
Sir Charles smiled, well pleased, and gave it her, and a kiss into the bargain.
"Ah! but," said she, "that is not all." "I am glad of it.


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