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Wild Wales

CHAPTER IV
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Oh, I want to be eased of some of my sins before I go into Wales again, and so do you, Tourlough, for you know how you are sometimes haunted by devils at night in those dreary Welsh hills.

Oh sir, give us comfort in some shape or other, either as priest or minister; give us God! Give us God!" "I am neither priest nor minister," said, I, "and can only say: Lord have mercy upon you!" Then getting up I flung the children some money and departed.
"We do not want your money, sir," screamed the woman after me; "we have plenty of money.

Give us God! Give us God!" "Yes, your haner," said the man, "give us God! we do not want money;" and the uncouth girl said something, which sounded much like Give us God! but I hastened across the meadow, which was now quite dusky, and was presently in the inn with my wife and daughter..


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