"Who have you been with, Jane?"
"You shall not get it out of me to-night, sir; you must wait till
to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort
of security that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish
it. By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only
a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say
nothing of fried ham."
"You mocking changeling -- fairy-born and human-bred! You make me
feel as I have not felt these twelve months. If Saul could have
had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised
without the aid of the harp."
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