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The Adventures of Harry Revel

CHAPTER IV
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I see by your complexion that she attends to you.

I hope you are careful not to laugh at her when she makes those ludicrous speeches ?" But I shifted the talk from Mrs.Trapp.
"What did you mean, just now, by 'we,' Miss Plinlimmon ?" I asked.
"Did I say 'we' ?" "You talked about your reverses--'our reverses,' you said.

I wish you would tell me about it: I never heard, before, of anyone belonging to you." "'We' means 'my brother and I,'" she said, and said no more until she had paid the bill and we walked up to the Hoe together.

There she chose a seat overlooking the Sound and close above the amphitheatre (in those days used as a bull-ring) where Corineus the Trojan had wrestled, ages before, with the giant Gogmagog and defeated him.
"My brother Arthur--Captain Arthur Plinlimmon of the King's Own--is the soul of honour.

I do not believe a nobler gentleman lives in the whole wide world: but then we are descended from the great Glendower, King of Wales (I will show you the pedigree, some day), and have Tudor blood, too, in our veins.


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