[The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham]@TWC D-Link bookThe Simpkins Plot CHAPTER XVIII 11/19
It's more likely she ran the other way." "Amn't I telling you it was to meet him? And, what's more, you'd say by the way she was running that she was thinking it a long time till she got to him." "You're mistaken about that," said Meldon.
"Unless she completely lost her head through sheer nervousness; it must have been away from him she ran." "It was not, but to him.
And then as soon as ever he seen her coming he put out his hand, and gripped a hold of Patsy Flaherty by the arm, and 'Stop, ye divil,' says he.
'Haven't ye had enough of battering that old screw for one day ?' says he, 'and don't you see the young lady that's coming across the lawn there and her lepping like a two-year-old, so as the sight of her would make you supple and you crippled with the rheumatics ?'" "I know now," said Meldon, "that you're telling me a pack of lies from start to finish.
There's not a judge in the world would say the words you're putting into that one's mouth.
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