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RUTGER BLEECKER JEWETT

CARO SEPTIMI
AUCTORISQUE AMICO HIC LIBER
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SEPTIMUS

CHAPTER I


"I love Nunsmere," said the Literary Man from London. "It is a spot where
faded lives are laid away in lavender."

"I'm not a faded life, and I'm not going to be laid away in lavender,"
retorted Zora Middlemist.

She turned from him and handed cakes to the Vicar. She had no desire to pet
the Vicar, but he was less unbearable than the Literary Man from London