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Marthy loved few things as she did an interested audience It was her

meat and drink

"Well, she didn't call herself Moore in Belden, though that was her

rinned "She was

one of those s"

The Squire knit his brows and his jaws caether with a snap; there

were tears in Mrs Bartlett's eyes The gossip looked from one to the

other to see the i

It spurred her on to new efforts She positively rolled the words

about in delight before she could utter the worried out of her skin,

took sick and died all of a sudden, and the girl took sick herself very

soon afterwards--and what do you think? A girl baby was born to Mrs

Lennox, but her husband never came near her Fortunately, the baby did

not live to embarrass her It died, and she packed up and left Belden

That's when she cae inquisitor, suirl called Miss Moore in one town

and Mrs Lennox in the other, with no sign of a wedding ring and no