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"What, you have got up!" she said "You are better, then You may

sit you down in my chair on the hearthstone, if you will"

She pointed to the rocking-chair: I took it She bustled about,

exa

to me, as she took soo a-begging afore you ca that anger was out of

the question, and that I had indeed appeared as a beggar to her, I

answered quietly, but still not without a certain ar I a ladies"

After a pause she said, "I dunnut understand that: you've like no

house, nor no brass, I guess?"

"The want of house or brass (by which I suppose you ar in your sense of the word"

"Are you book-learned?" she inquired presently

"Yes, very"

"But you've never been to a boarding-school?"

"I was at a boarding-school eight years"

She opened her eyes wide "Whatever cannot ye keep yourself for,

then?"