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The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the

little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness'

sake, took me past it I was disappointed to find that the day was a

holiday; no children were there, and Biddy's house was closed Soed in her daily duties, before

she saw e was a very short distance off, and I went towards it under

the sweet green li

after I ought to have heard it, and long after I had fancied I heard it

and found it but a fancy, all was still The limes were there, and the

white thorns were there, and the chestnut-trees were there, and their

leaves rustled harmoniously when I stopped to listen; but, the clink of

Joe's ha, without knohy, to coe, I saw

it at last, and saw that it was closed No glea

shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still

But the house was not deserted, and the best parlor see in its , and the as open and gay with flowers I went softly towards it,to peep

over the flowers, when Joe and Biddy stood before ht it was my apparition, but

in another moment she was in my embrace I wept to see her, and she wept