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The American Baron

CHAPTER IV
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'Minnie,' she cried, clinging to the child-angel, 'you must not go.

I would not have come up if I had thought you would be so unreasonable.' "'Ethel,' said the other, 'you are really getting to be quite a scold.
How ridiculous it is in you to set yourself up in this place as a duenna! How can I help going up?
and only one peep.

And I never saw a crater in my life, and I'm dying to know what it looks like.

I know it's awfully funny; and it's horrid in you to be so unkind about it.
And I really must go.

Won't you come?
Do, do, dear--dearest darling, do--do--do!' "Ethel was firm, however, and tried to dissuade the other, but to no purpose; for at length, with a laugh, the child-angel burst away, and skipped lightly up the slope toward the crater.
"'Just one peep,' she said.


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