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Even lo this dav I am sorrv that I didn’t run
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to her at once and go back with her down thc
liill. That didn’t occur to any of us, I think.
When we found that she hadn’t been hit, but
was only terribly frightened at seeing the great
stone in the air right over her, we almost
thought, up there in the fort, that it was rather
unseemly of the dean’s wife to scream out so.
She crept down the hili alone; she had just
gone up to see to a white bed-spread that was
hanging on a bush to dry.
Our festive mood was gone, however,—
shocked out of us, as it were.
Karsten struck into the air with clenched
fists, as he always does when he is excited. It
wasn’t so very dangerous, he protested; for if
lie had been the dean’s wife, of course he would
have seen what direction the stone was taking
in the air, and if it went that way, why then
he would have jumped to one side—like this—
and if the stone went the other way, why then
you could just jump to the other side.
Be-sides, if the dean’s wife had been, as she ought
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