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Lord Kilgobbin

CHAPTER XII
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There is an ecstasy in scenting these nice fresh woods in the clear sunrise, and seeing those modest daffodils make their morning toilet.' 'That's a fancy of Kate's.

There is a border of such wild flowers all the way to the house.' 'And those rills of clear water that flank the road, are they of her designing ?' 'That they are.

There was a cutting made for a railroad line about four miles from this, and they came upon a sort of pudding-stone formation, made up chiefly of white pebbles.

Kate heard of it, purchased the whole mass, and had these channels paved with them from the gate to the castle, and that's the reason this water has its crystal clearness.' 'She's worthy of Shakespeare's sweet epithet, the "daintiest Kate in Christendom." Here's her health!' and he stooped down, and filling his palm with the running water, drank it off.
'I see it's not yet five o'clock.

We'll steal quietly off to bed, and have three or four hours sleep before we show ourselves.'.


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