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Simon Dale

CHAPTER V
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Let him go." "You heard what he said of you----" began the fellow sullenly.
"Ay, I hear what everybody says of me," she answered carelessly.

"Let him go." The porter sulkily released his prey, and Phineas, set free, began to gasp and shake himself.

Another coin whistled down to the porter, who, picking it up, shambled off with a last oath of warning to his enemy.
Then, and then only, did she look at me, who had never ceased to look at her.

When she saw me, her smile grew broader, and her eyes twinkled in surprise and delight.
"A happy morning!" she said, clasping her little hands.

"Ah, a happy morning! Why, 'tis Simon, my Simon, my little Simon from the country.
Come up to me, Simon.


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