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I shook my head I was not shocked What had kept her back all that

time, till I appeared on the scene below, she went on, was neither fear

nor any other kind of hesitation One reaches a point, she said with

appalling youthful sier But souessed what it was She herself confessed that it see

Flora de Barral paused, looking at me, with a peculiar expression and

then went on You see, she i had become extreht fall over or

jump down after her She tried to drive him away She spoke sternly to

him It only made him more frisky He barked and juh spirits He sca upon her and leaping as high as her waist She

coround a bit

of a broken branch and threw it at hiht knew no

bounds; his rushes beca the time of his life She was convinced that theover after her as if it were part of the

game She was vexed almost to tears She was touched too And when he

stood still at so