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The Mermaid

CHAPTER VII
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Would you like to see them ?" "If you will take care of me." As she turned and rode before him he heard her laughing.
"There," she said, stopping and pointing to the ground--"there is the place where the quicksand was.

I have not gone over it this morning.
Sometimes they last from one season to another; sometimes they change themselves in a few days.

I was dreadfully frightened when we began to sink, but it was you who saved the pony." "Don't," said Caius--"don't attempt to make the best of me.

I would rather be laughed at." He spoke lightly, without feeling, and that seemed to please her.
"I think," she said candidly, "we behaved very badly; but it was O'Shea's fault--I only enjoyed it.

And I don't see what else we could have done, because those two French sailors had to watch if anyone came to steal from the wreck, and they were going to help us so far as to go to the sheds on the cliff for boards to get up the cart; but O'Shea could not have stayed all night with the bags unless I had left him my coat as well as his own." "You might have trusted me," said Caius.


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