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about the ti

apprenticeship 'twas I served that master of mine six years and three

hundred and fourteen days"

The hollow-turner pronounced the days with e

their number, they were a rather more remarkable fact than the years

"Mr Winterborne's father walked with her at one tis "But Mr Melbury won her She was a child of a woman,

and would cry like rain if so be he huffed her Whenever she and her

husband caether he'd take her up like

a half-penny doll and put her over without dirting her a speck And if

he keeps the daughter so long at boarding-school, he'll make her as

nesh as her mother was But here he comes"

Just before thisthe court

fro an open letter in his hand, and caht had quite

gone