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"What is it?" said I, looking into her troubled eyes "Char!--what is it?"

"I don't know--but oh, Peter! I feel as if a shadow--a black and

awful shadoere creeping upon us hiding us from each other I

a-day!"

"Peter! Pe-ter!"

"Coether"

"No, I must wait--it is woo--see what is wanted"

I found Sih, in the lane, seated in his cart, and

his face looked squarer and gri , Simon?"

"Dyin', Peter Fell downstairs 's marnin' Doctor says 'e can't

last the day out--sinkin' fast, 'e be, an' 'e be axin' for 'ee,

Peter 'Wheer be Peter?' says 'e over an' over again; 'wheer be

the Peter as I found of a sunshiny arternoon, down in th' 'aunted

'Oller?' You weren't at work 's marnin', Peter, so I be coood-by' to the old: