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She forced them back and met the Squire with a smile that was all the

sweeter for the effort

"Here's your chair, Squire, all ready waiting for you, and the only

thing you want to uess?" She held out

his old corncob pipe, filled to perfection

"I declare, Anna, you are just spoilingfellows 'round

here, and where will I be then?"

"You need have no fears on that score," she said, struggling to

irls always say, but I don't knoe'll

do without you How long have you been with us, now?"

"Let ers: "just six months"

"So it is, my dear Well, I hope it will be six years before you think

of leaving us And, Anna, while we are talking, I like to say to you

that I have felt pretty mean more than once about the way I treated you

that first day you come"

"Pray, do not mention it, Squire Your kindness since has quite er into your