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Lorna Doone

CHAPTER VIII
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But how you are looking at me! I never saw any one like you before.

My name is John Ridd.

What is your name ?" "Lorna Doone," she answered, in a low voice, as if afraid of it, and hanging her head so that I could see only her forehead and eyelashes; "if you please, my name is Lorna Doone; and I thought you must have known it." Then I stood up and touched her hand, and tried to make her look at me; but she only turned away the more.

Young and harmless as she was, her name alone made guilt of her.

Nevertheless I could not help looking at her tenderly, and the more when her blushes turned into tears, and her tears to long, low sobs.
"Don't cry," I said, "whatever you do.


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