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said, with playful effrontery, "May'st kiss nized her as Suke Damson, a hoydenish da him for her lover He was

impulsively disposed to profit by her error, and as soon as she began

racing away he started in pursuit

On she went under the boughs, now in light, now in shade, looking over

her shoulder at hily dodging about a the trees and erously near her Thus they ran and doubled,

Fitzpiers war with the chase, till the sound of their coan to lose hope of ever overtaking her,

when all at once, by way of encouragement, she turned to a fence in

which there was a stile and leaped over it Outside the scene was a

changed one--a meadohere the half-made hay lay about in heaps, in

the uninterrupted shine of the now high round, she had

placed herself at his mercy, and he promptly vaulted over after her

She flitted a little way down the ht form

disappeared as if it had sunk into the earth She had buried herself in

one of the hay-cocks