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" Oh, that's all right, that's all right, give us a rest; never mind about the direction, hang the direction— I beg pardon, I beg a thousand pardons, I am not well to-day; pay no attention when I soliloquize, it is an old habit, Supra Skytop an old, bad habit, and hard to get rid of when one's digestion is all disordered with eating food that was raised forever and ever before he was born; good land! a man can't keep his functions regular on spring chickens thirteen hundred years old. But come — never mind about that; let's — have you got such a thing as a map of that region about you? Now a good map—"
" Is it peradventure that manner of thing which of late the unbelievers have brought from over the great seas, which, being boiled in oil, and an onion and salt added thereto, doth—"
"What, a map? What are you talking about? Don't you know what a map is ? There, there, never mind, don't explain, I hate explanations; they fog a thing up so that you can't tell anything about it. Run along, dear; good-day; show her the way, Clar¬ence."
Oh, well, it was reasonably plain, now, why these
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Just as I was ending-up these reflections, Clarence came back. I remarked upon the barren result of my efforts with the girl; hadn't got hold of a single point that could help me to find the castle. The youth looked a little surprised, or puzzled, or some¬thing, and intimated that he had been wondering to himself what I had wanted to ask the girl all those questions for.
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" Ride with me ? Nonsense !"
" But of a truth she will. She will, ride with thee. Thou shalt see."
" What ? She browse around the hills and scour the woods with me—alone—and I as good as engaged to be married ? Why, it's scandalous. Think how it would look."
My, the dear face that rose before me! The boy was eager to know all about this tender matter. I swore him to secrecy and then whispered her name— 44 Puss Flanagan." He looked disappointed, and said he didn't remember the countess. How natural it was for the little courtier to give her a rank. He asked me where she lived.
44 In East Har—" I came to myself and stopped, a little confused; then I said,44 Never mind, now; I'll tell you sometime."
And might he see her ? Would I let him see her some day ?
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