[Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr.]@TWC D-Link book
Elsie Venner

CHAPTER VII
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What kills anybody quickest, Doctor ?" Then, in a whisper, "I ran away again the other day, you know." "Where did you go ?" The Doctor spoke in a low, serious tone.
"Oh, to the old place.

Here, I brought this for you." The Doctor started as she handed him a flower of the Atragene Americana, for he knew that there was only one spot where it grew, and that not one where any rash foot, least of all a thin-shod woman's foot, should venture.
"How long were you gone ?" said the Doctor.
"Only one night.

You should have heard the horns blowing and the guns firing.

Dudley was frightened out of his wits.

Old Sophy told him she'd had a dream, and that I should be found in Dead-Man's Hollow, with a great rock lying on me.


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