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you wish me to understand by the epithet 'creature'?"

Char she did not intend

to answer e

Now it is ever my custom, when at all troubled or put out in any

way, to seek consolation inthe candles, sat down at the table

In a little while Char, and not troubling even to glance in ht her linen and

lace and ribands froether with needle and cotton, and, sitting down at the

opposite side of the table, began to sew

She was still hu, and this of itself distracted my mind from

the lines before leaan to debate within ht be) was ruffled, and edged

with lace, and caught here and there with little bows of blue

riband, and, from these, and divers other evidences, I had

concluded it to be a gar about

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suddenly, she caught my eye; whereupon, for no reason in the

world, I felt suddenly guilty, to hide which I began to search

through my pockets for my pipe