This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...with the matches. You can say if this frock suits me." "If I was a boy I shouldn't bother whether it suited you or not," said Weevil, nodding at her violently. "But as you are only an old daddy-man?" she suggested. "It will do, Boodle-oodle. Sackcloth would look quite as well--on you." "I'll wear sackcloth presently; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...with the matches. You can say if this frock suits me." "If I was a boy I shouldn't bother whether it suited you or not," said Weevil, nodding at her violently. "But as you are only an old daddy-man?" she suggested. "It will do, Boodle-oodle. Sackcloth would look quite as well--on you." "I'll wear sackcloth presently; when Aubrey goes and winter comes," she laughed. Weevil became excited again. He wished she would not make such heedless and innocent remarks. They suggested the possibility of weak points in his amazing story. Another unpleasant idea occurred as he looked at the charming little maid. She was always walking about the moor alone. The Brute might seize her in one of his Protean forms, and she might disappear just as her fictitious mother had done. Weevil had invoked his imagination, and as a result all sorts of ghostly things occurred to his mind to which it had been a stranger hitherto. There were traps lying about for girls as well as rabbits. "Where are you going, little radiance?" he said. "Down by the Tavy. Our walk. We have only one." Boodles answered from the door, and then she went. She had only one walk. On all Dartmoor there was only one. Weevil caught up his manuscript and began to jabber again. She must not have that one walk taken away from her. For two hours he worked, like a student on the brink of an examination, trying to commit his story to memory. Each time he read the fictions they became to him more probable. He scarcely knew himself what a miserable memory he had, but he was well aware how nervous he could be in the presence of strangers, and how liable he was to be confused when any special eccentricity asserted itself. As the time when his visitor might be ex...
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