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The Betrayal

CHAPTER VI
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I am looking forward very much to hearing it.

This always seems to me such a quaint, fascinating corner of the world that I love to read and hear all that people have to say about it." "You are very kind," I said; "but if you come I am afraid you will be bored.

The notes which I have put together are prepared for the comprehension of the village people." "So much the better," she declared.

"I prefer anything which does not make too great a strain upon the intellect.

Besides, it is the very simplicity of this country which makes it so beautiful." "Yet it is a land," I remarked, "of elusive charms." "Sometimes, unless they are pointed out," she replied, "by one who has the eye and ear for nature, these are the hardest to appreciate.


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