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Ernest Linwood

CHAPTER XXVI
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That wild flow of the hair is perfectly bewitching.

I don't wonder Mr.Invincible has grounded his weapons, not I.If I were a young man,--ha, ha!" "I sometimes fear you are," I cried.

At this remark she burst into such a wild fit of laughter, I thought she never would cease.

It drowned the ringing of the bell, and still kept gushing over afresh.
"Ask Mrs.Linwood to excuse me from supper," said I; "I do not wish any, indeed I do not." Well, I am not one of the air plants; I must have something more substantial than sentiment, or I should pine with green and yellow hunger, not melancholy.

I never cried but once, that I recollect, and that was when a favorite black cat of mine was killed,--maliciously, villanously killed, by an old maid, just because she devoured her favorite Canary.


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