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Robin

CHAPTER I
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What is it ?" He sat on a low ottoman near her and laughed a little also.
"I don't know," he answered, "but I'm wide awake." The English summer dawn is of a magical clear light and she could see him well.

She had a thrilled feeling that she had never quite known before what a beautiful thing he was--how perfect and shining fair in his boy manhood.
"Mother," he said, "you won't remember perhaps--it's a queer thing that I should myself--but I have never really forgotten.

There was a child I played with in some garden when I was a little chap.

She was a beautiful little thing who seemed to belong to nobody--" "She belonged to a Mrs.Gareth-Lawless," Helen interpolated.
"Then you do remember ?" "Yes, dear.

You asked me to go to the Gardens with you to see her.


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