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‘A pity,’ observed I. ‘You’re hard to please; so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content!’ ‘Nelly, will you keep a secret for me?’ she pursued, kneeling down by me, and lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it. ‘Is it worth keeping?’ I inquired, less sulkily. ‘Yes, and it worries me, and I must let it out! I want to know what I should do. To-day, Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an answer. Now, before I tell you whether it was a consent or denial, you tell me which it ought to have been.’ ‘Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?’ I replied. ‘To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.’ ‘If you talk so, I won’t tell you any more,’ she returned, peevishly rising to her feet. ‘I accepted him, Nelly. Be quick, and say whether I was wrong!’ ‘You accepted him! Then what good is it discussing the matter? You have pledged your word, and cannot retract.’ ‘But say whether I should have done so do!’ she exclaimed in an irritated tone; chafing her hands together, and frowning. ‘There are many things to be considered before that question can be answered properly,’ I said, sententiously. ‘First and foremost, do you love Mr. Edgar?’ ‘Who can help it? Of course I do,’ she answered. 98 <strong>Wuthering</strong> <strong>Heights</strong>
Then I put her through the following catechism: for a girl of twenty-two it was not injudicious. ‘Why do you love him, Miss Cathy?’ ‘Nonsense, I do that’s sufficient.’ ‘By no means; you must say why?’ ‘Well, because he is handsome, and pleasant to be with.’ ‘Bad!’ was my commentary. ‘And because he is young and cheerful.’ ‘Bad, still.’ ‘And because he loves me.’ ‘Indifferent, coming there.’ ‘And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.’ ‘Worst of all. And now, say how you love him?’ ‘As everybody loves You’re silly, Nelly.’ ‘Not at all Answer.’ ‘I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether. There now!’ ‘And why?’ ‘Nay; you are making a jest of it: it is exceedingly ill-natured! It’s no jest to me!’ said the young lady, scowling, and turning her face to the fire. ‘I’m very far from jesting, Miss Catherine,’ I replied. ‘You love Mr. Edgar because he is handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich, and loves you. The last, however, goes for nothing: you would love him without that, probably; and Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 99
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Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
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Chapter I 1801. I have just returne
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foresight to build it strong: the n
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Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely di
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‘What the devil is the matter?’
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Chapter II YESTERDAY afternoon set
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sure attendance: I had hard work to
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hands were embrowned like those of
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for love by girls: that dream is re
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I saw only Joseph bringing in a pai
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‘Then, it follows that I am compe
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to inquire into the nature of the u
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varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and
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from the stables. He tears down my
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I began to dream, almost before I c
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come. Brethren, execute upon him th
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er door; somebody pushed it open, w
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on that window-ledge. A monotonous
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pactly together, enabled me to reki
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Heathcliff lifted his hand, and the
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Chapter IV WHAT vain weathercocks w
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a minute’s reflection convinced m
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eating my porridge with them and he
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Page 51 and 52: Chapter V IN the course of time Mr.
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Page 65 and 66: Chapter VII CATHY stayed at Thrushc
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Page 71 and 72: ‘But, Nelly, if I knocked him dow
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Page 83 and 84: would. Joseph remained to hector ov
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Page 87 and 88: ‘Not that I know of,’ stammered
Page 89 and 90: Nelly?’ ‘My work, Miss,’ I re
Page 91 and 92: ‘You must not go!’ she exclaime
Page 93 and 94: Chapter IX HE entered, vociferating
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the inner door, and made his escape
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are full of icewater; but mine are
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Chapter XII WHILE Miss Linton moped
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actually so utterly indifferent for
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down is flying about like snow.’
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held the casement ajar a few second
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‘Because I won’t give you your
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‘You shall account more clearly f
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make her howl a recantation!’ A m
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‘And does Miss Linton turn a cold
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‘What ails your young lady?’
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Chapter XIII FOR two months the fug
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the parlour sofa for her bed, till
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ion halted half an hour, to inspect
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en door; and when I would have gone
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‘Well!’ I said. ‘But why, Mr.
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emembrance. It racked me to recall
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serving, ‘and pleasant inmates; a
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a prolonged, piteous yelping. I had
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ing: I saw her looking through the
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have nothing but common humanity an
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him that.’ ‘You have been telli
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genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful,
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her. Last night I was in the Grange
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merited so harsh an appellation, sh
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ow. He departed, and I went up-stai
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the name, and gazed at me with mour
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away her moral character also. Her
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instant they held asunder, and then
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‘I must go, Cathy,’ said Heathc
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Chapter XVI ABOUT twelve o’clock
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ise to quit the room and steal out
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ly days. Her life closed in a gentl
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of the kirk-yard, where the wall is
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count the number of falls I’ve ha
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‘Well, don’t talk so fast, Miss
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at the funeral. He kept himself sob
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‘The doleful silence was broken a
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‘’I shall not meddle in the mat
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efore. Being at liberty, I lost no
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ner beside him. ‘Heathcliff did n
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would have been living now had it n
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abode was in the south, near London
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to their children; and I could not
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he ought to and must inquire how th
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one; so intimate to your master tha
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a harsh word to her. He took her ed
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a kind of fever, slow at its commen
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the high-road. I walked as if for a
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with her, and I thought he should:
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this moment!’ ‘Softly, Miss,’
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solace in drink by what he termed t
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Chapter XIX A LETTER, edged with bl
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don’t harass him much by talking:
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these words, and now presented hims
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of where he is gone to my daughter:
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valley, whence a light mist mounted
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followed in gaping curiosity. Poor
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as your master tends his own. I hav
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Chapter XXI WE had sad work with li
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een twice, on horseback, accompanyi
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were quantities up here, and I wish
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tain, Catherine would be the heir.
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future: may I, uncle? and sometimes
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sentence in Heathcliff’s ear. He
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‘Get up, you idle boy!’ he excl
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on the characters of the people we
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discourse long upon the topic; for
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shut her door, in great displeasure
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position. It was more simple and mo
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‘I promise, Ellen!’ she cried,
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certain of showers. She refused; an
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spared till he saw sixty, that woul
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planation to ask and obtain.’ ‘
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and contrive to see him. He dreams
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Chapter XXIII THE rainy night had u
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is out there but Joseph.’ ‘I wa
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‘MY papa scorns yours!’ cried L
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you.’ ‘Must I go?’ asked Cath
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long interesting ballad one of thos
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soon as I entered I hastened to cha
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ing remained alone a long while, I
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efastening the lock of the park doo
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songs YOUR songs, Ellen; and when I
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worth while being civil to the brut
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him.’ I stood crying till the hou
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on purpose to hurt you, and pretend
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was a promise that he would write a
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prospect of improvement, as he grow
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divided. That part of his letter wa
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Chapter XXVI SUMMER was already pas
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person and manner. The pettishness
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was compelled to perform this inter
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Chapter XXVII SEVEN days glided awa
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‘My father IS very ill,’ she sa
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and the sincerity of which I couldn
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He approached once more, and made a
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and, what with that and the rage, I
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monkey like you? Are you cherishing
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‘Silence!’ said the ruffian.
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cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsin
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And there I remained enclosed the w
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flit, when you go up; here is the k
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‘I can’t stay with her,’ he a
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him, even in those few days! He lay
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a faint colour with my apron. Then
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Chapter XXIX THE evening after the
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natural heart.’ ‘I’m seeking
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and you’ll have a better chance o
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had not resembled catgut, they woul
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Chapter XXX I HAVE paid a visit to
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stantly, and tell him.’ ‘Having
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cold; and I told her the master was
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degrees, quite centred in the study
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tor’s prophecy, I am rapidly reco
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‘She does not seem so amiable,’
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the mere love of stealing! They are
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of balancing the account, and repay
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come. Catherine bring the things in
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turf on the graves. It was sweet, w
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extra heat endurable. But the house
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‘Why, bless you, Mr. Lockwood! Ho
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delusion did not last long. Catheri
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he took to smoking with Joseph; and
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Catherine frowned, and retreated to
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happy by speaking that little word.
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Chapter XXXIII ON the morrow of tha
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Hareton looked at his plate, and di
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‘And Hareton’s land, and his mo
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that Earnshaw took the master’s r
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is ready and in my power, I find th
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conscious of it now.’ ‘You have
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Chapter XXXIV FOR some days after t
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I obeyed: and, in passing, I notice
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ior gloom. The fire had smouldered
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taking it out of doors, under the t
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ing the floor, and he frequently br
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and show you how very far you have
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tice, flapping to and fro, had graz
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I saw nothing; but neither the shee
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