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Title: The Holly-Tree
Author: Charles Dickens
Release Date: April 3, 2005 [eBook #1394]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1894 Chapman and Hall edition of "Christmas Stories"
by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE HOLLY-TREE--THREE BRANCHES
FIRST BRANCH--MYSELF
I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man.
Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did
suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I
have never breathed until now.
I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerable places
I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called upon or
received, the innumerable social evasions I have been guilty of, solely
because I am by original constitution and character a bashful man.
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