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LOVE IN IDLENESS
Before Brinsley was mounted, Fanny was over the fence with her mare, and waiting for him in the road.
"Oh, come along! " she cried. "Don't be all day getting on!"
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"You needn't be so tremendously rough on a fellow," said Brinsley, as his horse landed in the road. "It wasn't my fault that I wasn't waiting for a runaway under the trees up there."