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The water-babies (1916)

Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875, Smith, Jessie Willcox, 1863-1935, ill · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 37

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at wish to be foul, foul theywill be. Remember. And she turned away, and through a gate into themeadow. Grimes stood still a moment, like a manwho had been stunned. Then he rushed after her,shouting, You come back. But when he got intothe meadow, the woman was not there. Had she hidden away? There… … Grimes came back again, assilent as a post, for he was alittle frightened; and, gettingon his donkey, filled a freshpipe, and smoked away, leav-ing Tom in peace. And now they had gone threemiles and more, and came toSir Johns lodge-gates. Very grand lodges they were,with very grand iron gates…

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