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White Lies

CHAPTER IV
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Can you walk ?" "Lord bless you, no! nor stand neither without help." Edouard flew to the wheelbarrow, and, reversing it, spun a lot of billet out.

"Ye must not do that," said Dard with all the energy he was capable of in his present condition.

"Why, that is Jacintha's wood."-- "To the devil with Jacintha and her wood too!" cried Edouard, "a man is worth more than a fagot.

Come, I shall wheel you home: it is only just across the park." With some difficulty he lifted him into the barrow.

Luckily he had his shooting-jacket on with a brandy-flask in it: he administered it with excellent effect.
The ladies, as they walked, saw a man wheeling a barrow across the park, and took no particular notice; but, as Riviere was making for the same point they were, though at another angle, presently the barrow came near enough for them to see Dard's head and arms in it.


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