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"I heard the bushes an "I said

first, 'it is some terrible beast;' next, 'it is a poacher;' next, 'it

is a friend!'"

He regarded her with a slight s, not her speech, but the

question whether he should tell her that she had been watched He

decided in the negative

"You have been to the house?" he said "But I need not ask" The fact

was that there shone upon Miss Melbury's face a species of exaltation,

which saw no environing details nor his own occupation; nothing more

than his bare presence

"Why need you not ask?"

"Your face is like the face of Moses when he came down from the Mount"

She reddened a little and said, "How can you be so profane, Giles

Winterborne?"

"How can you think sopardon;

I didn't mean to speak so freely How do you like her house and her?"

"Exceedingly I had not been inside the walls since I was a child,