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Excerpt from Violet Lisle
Will you forgive my presumption, Miss Violet? I have nothing to forgive, Mr. Jenkins; the love of so good and true a man as you must be an honor to any girl.
The two speakers stood under the spreading branches of a great oak. Near by stood the ruins of Penarth Abbey, its ivy mantled walls gilded by the glowing rays of a warm autumn sun, and the long shadows cast by the famous Penarth oaks falling in fantastic shapes over its uneven contours. It was plain from the sketch-book in the girl's hand that she had been there with an artist's purpose. A glance at the man told that he was a curate a fact betrayed no less by his air than by his garb.
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