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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XI
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I half expected to have heard you make love to her behind the hedge, but I begin to think you care for nothing in this world but old words and strange stories.

Lor', to take a young woman under a hedge, and talk to her as you did to Ursula; and yet you got everything out of her that you wanted, with your gammon about old Fulcher and Meridiana.

You are a cunning one, brother." "There you are mistaken, Jasper.

I am not cunning.

If people think I am, it is because, being made up of art themselves, simplicity of character is a puzzle to them.


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