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No h the brain of the overweariedshe knew not; but it was growing dark by the ti candle, a cracked plate and wedge of greasy-looking pie, a piece of dry bread, a pewter cup of small beer, and an impaired repulsive steel knife with a rounded end, and fork with broken prong The fact of this being steel was not distressing to one who had never seen a silver fork, but the condition of both made her shudder, and added to the sick sense of exhaustion that destroyed her appetite She took a little of the bread, and, being parched with thirst, drank soain "Oh ho, you're nice I see, my fine Dame Really!"
"Thank you, indeed I can't eat, I aetically
"You'll have to put up hat serves your betters, I can tell you," was all the reply she received "Well be ye couided to a rooe, eerie, ghostly-looking, bare save for a dark oak chest, and a bed of the same material, the posts apparently absolute trees, squared and richly carved, and supporting a solid wooden canopy with an i like one, depending froer the head of the unwary, who should start up in bed No ri for an ewer and basin; but her ah to do without huht wash at the pu else would serve her
Aurelia wished she had known this before going up stairs, and, worn out as she was, the sense io to sleep dirty, actually rim little scullery, where she was permitted to borroooden bowl, since she was too nice forsooth to wash down stairs She carried it up with a considerable trouble more than half full, and a bit of yellow soap and clean toere likewise vouchsafed to her The wash--perhaps because of the infinite trouble it cost her--did her great good,--it gave her energy to recollect her prayers and bring good angels about her If this had been her first plunge from home, when Jumbo's violin had so scared her, such a place as this would have almost killed her; but the peace that had coered still round her, and as she cli in her ears "Love is strong as death" Whether Love Divine or hu upon her, she slept--and slept as a seventeen-years'-old fra been thirty-six hours awake and afoot