Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli
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"Oh Robin, Robin!" she cried--"You are simply delicious! The most enchanting boy! That crimson tie and that Latin! No wonder the village girls adore you! 'De,'--what is it? 'Contemptu Mundi,' and Misery Human Conditions! Poor Pope! He never sat on top of a hay- load in his life I'm sure! But you see his name was Lothario,--not Innocent." "His baptismal name was Lothario," said Robin, severely. She was suddenly silent. "Well! I suppose _I_ was baptised?" she queried, after a pause. "I suppose so." "I wonder if I have any other name? I must ask Dad." Robin looked at her curiously;--then his thoughts were diverted by the sight of a squat stout woman in a brown spotted print gown and white sunbonnet, who just then trotted briskly into the hay-field, calling at the top of her voice: "Mister Jocelyn! Mister Jocelyn! You're wanted!" "There's Priscilla calling Uncle in," he said, and making a hollow of his hands he shouted: "Hullo, Priscilla! What is it?" |
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