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A Simpleton

CHAPTER VII
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Nose! it was a rostrum! the spear-head of Goliah." "Now, don't, Christopher.

This is no laughing matter.

Do you mean you were not ashamed of your wife?
I was." "No, I was not; you had but one rival; a very young lady, wise before her age; a blonde, with violet eyes.

She was dressed in light mauve-colored silk, without a single flounce, or any other tomfoolery to fritter away the sheen and color of an exquisite material; her sunny hair was another wave of color, wreathed with a thin line of white jessamine flowers closely woven, that scented the air.

This girl was the moon of that assembly, and you were the sun." "I never even saw her." "Eyes and no eyes.


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