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Simon Dale

CHAPTER VII
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He did not pursue her, but caught my arm, and looked hard and straight in my face.

I am happily somewhat wooden of feature, and a man could not make me colour now, although a woman could.

He took nothing by his examination.
"You interrupted me," he said.
"Alas, your Grace knows how poor a courtier I am, and how ignorant----" "Ignorant!" he cried; "yes, you're mighty ignorant, no doubt; but I begin to think you know a pretty face when you see it, Master Simon Dale.

Well, I'll not quarrel.

Isn't she the most admirable creature alive ?" "I had supposed Lord Carford thought so, sir." "Oh! And yet Lord Carford did not hurry me off to find the King! But you?
What say you to the question ?" "I'm so dazzled, sir, by all the beautiful ladies of His Majesty's Court that I can hardly perceive individual charms." He laughed again, and pinched my arm, saying, "We all love what we have not.


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