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The Daisy Chain

CHAPTER XV
14/22

Whay! Stop.

There's an old woman in here.

It is too late for Fordholm, but these cases won't wait." He went into the cottage, and soon returned, saying, "Fine new blankets, and a great kettle of soup, and such praises of the ladies at the Grange!" And, at the next house, it was the same story.

"Well, 'tis no mockery now to tell the poor creatures they want nourishing food.

Slices of meat and bottles of port wine rain down on Abbotstoke." A far more talkative journey than usual ensued; the discussion of the paintings and antiques was almost equally delightful to the father and son, and lasted till, about a mile from Stoneborough, they descried three figures in the twilight.
"Ha! How are you, Wilmot?
So you braved the rain, Ethel.


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