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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: there is no saying, I may drop between the horses, and go under their cruel hoofs, and there would be the end of poor little Queenie I The thought that this girl would be concerned if he did not appear, that his absence might set her little heart in a flutter of disappointment, was too much for the lad. He put his hands to his head?it was spinning like a teetotum; then she spread out her arms, shaking the broken nuts over the side of the steps. What is your name ? she asked. Andrew Grice. And I am Queenie Sant, said she. Then putting her head on one side, and throwing a mischievous twinkle into her eyes, she said coaxingly? You will come and see me ? Promise, you good Andrew, and I swear? Hush, hush I vow and protest I will transform grave Andrew into a very merry Andrew; also, I will come to your salt works to-morrow. If I do not see you I will not come. Then all at once a young man of rough exterior, with a shock of sandy hair on his head, strode to the side of the girl, and before she was aware, had bowed and lightly kissed her cheek. Turning to Andrew he said scornfully, ? Stoop, fool, and pick up the nutshells offered; I, as a man, take what I can snatch, unasked?I?Rab Rainbow. CHAPTER IV. BAB RAINBOW. The girl sprang to her feet alarmed, incensed. The act of Rab Rainbow was so unexpected. Indeed, she had not even perceived the approach of the mau. Norhad Andrew Grice observed him, so engrossed had he been in watching the circus girl, though Kab had been there for some little while, leaning his elbow against the van, with his fmgers thrust through his light, bushy hair, looking down on the little Queen as she played with, and attracted the young waller. The moment she had recovered herself, she sprang through the doo...
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