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"Ah!" returned the lady, "you saved him once, and for that I thank you; for may I not say that I somewhat loved him? But tell me how you fared, when you struck your battle-axe into the ash-tree, and he came and found you; for so much of the story you had told me, when the beggar-child came and took you away."
And actually it was the beggar-child, clean and neatly clothed, and looking as if she had not been hungry for a long time. She looked shy, but she had a nice face, now that she was no longer a savage, and the wild look had gone from her eyes. She knew Sara in an instant, and stood and looked at her as if she could never look enough.
"I see Enid," said Hubert rather wonderingly. "I suppose she ought not to be here alone; she must have escaped from Florence. Why are you so alarmed? She is talking to a beggar-child that is all." Miss Vane pressed his arm with her hand. "Are you blind?" she said. "Do you not know to whom she is talking? Can you bear to see it?"
And actually it was the beggar-child, clean and neatly clothed, and looking as if she had not been hungry for a long time. She looked shy, but she had a nice face, now that she was no longer a savage; and the wild look had gone from her eyes. And she knew Sara in an instant, and stood and looked at her as if she could never look enough.
For a moment she looked at Sara very hard indeed, and then her good-natured face lighted up. "I'm that sure I remember you, miss," she said. "And yet " "Yes," said Sara, "once you gave me six buns for fourpence, and " "And you gave five of 'em to a beggar-child," said the woman. "I've always remembered it. I couldn't make it out at first.
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