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To Have and To Hold

CHAPTER XVII IN WHICH MY LORD AND I PLAY AT BOWLS
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"My lord there asks me to give him my place.

When we were hunting yesterday, and the stag turned upon me, he came between and thrust his knife into the brute, which else might have put an end to my hunting forever and a day: so you see I can't refuse him.

Plague take it all! and Dorothy Gookin sitting there watching!" My lord and I stood forward, each with a bowl in his hand.

We looked toward the Governor.

"My lord first, as becometh his rank," he said.
My lord stooped and threw, and his bowl went swiftly over the grass, turned, and rested not a hands'-breadth from the jack.


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