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White Lies

CHAPTER XI
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Go and stew down a piece of good beef for him.

Stew it in red wine and water." "That I will: poor thing!" "Why, I know him," said the baroness suddenly; "it is an old acquaintance, young Dujardin: you remember, Josephine.

I used to suspect him of a fancy for you, poor fellow! Why, he must have come here to see us, poor soul." "No matter who it is; it is a man.

Now, girls, have you courage, have you humanity?
Then come one on each side of him and take hands beneath his back, while I lift his head and Dard his legs." "And handle him gently whatever you do," said Dard.

"I know what it is to be wounded." These four carried the lifeless burden very slowly and gently across the Pleasaunce to the house, then with more difficulty and caution up the stairs.
All the while the sisters' hands griped one another tight beneath the lifeless burden, and spoke to one another.


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