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The Fair Maid of Perth

CHAPTER XXXI
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And, hark you, were it not well to receive that coy jillet with something of a mumming ?" "How mean you, my lord ?" "Thou art dull, man.

We will not disappoint her, since she expects to find the Duchess of Rothsay: I will be Duke and Duchess in my own person." "Still I do not comprehend." "No one so dull as a wit," said the Prince, "when he does not hit off the scent at once.

My Duchess, as they call her, has been in as great a hurry to run away from Falkland as I to come hither.

We have both left our apparel behind.

There is as much female trumpery in the wardrobe adjoining to my sleeping room as would equip a whole carnival.


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