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Audrey

CHAPTER I
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"Ay, he lives in a palace, a red brick palace, sixty feet long and forty feet deep, with a bauble on top that's all afire on birth-nights.

There are green gardens, too, with winding paths, and sometimes pretty ladies walk in them.

Wouldst like to see all these fine things ?" The child nodded.

"Ay, that I would! Who is the gentleman that sang, and that now sits by Molly?
See! with his hand touching her hair.

Is he a Governor, too ?" The other glanced in the direction of the sugar-tree, raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders, and returned to his fishing.


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