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Lorna Doone
A Romance of Exmoor

CHAPTER XI
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I knew you could ride when I saw you, and rarely you have conquered.

But women don't understand us.

Good-bye, John; I am proud of you, and I hoped to have done you pleasure.

And indeed I came full of some courtly tales, that would have made your hair stand up.

But though not a crust have I tasted since this time yesterday, having given my meat to a widow, I will go and starve on the moor far sooner than eat the best supper that ever was cooked, in a place that has forgotten me.' With that he fetched a heavy sigh, as if it had been for my father; and feebly got upon Winnie's back, and she came to say farewell to me.


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