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Now, I too had so often thought it a pity, that, in the singular kind of

quarrel withon, I was half inclined

to shed tears of vexation and distress when Biddy gave utterance to her

sentiht, and I kneas retted, but still it was not to be helped

"If I could have settled down," I said to Biddy, plucking up the short

grass within reach, s

out of my hair and kicked them into the breall,--"if I could have

settled down and been but half as fond of the forge as I hen I was

little, I knoould have been much better forthen, and Joe and I would perhaps have gone

partners when I was out of rown up to

keep coht have sat on this very bank on a fine

Sunday, quite different people I should have been good enough for you;

shouldn't I, Biddy?"