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"What does sheto tantalize

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that, but she need not overdo thehurt ht, "I will at

least be even with her She shall not have the satisfaction of

guessing how much I suffer," and as Lucy then called to him from the

opposite side of the lawn, he asked Anna to accompany him thither,

just as he would have done a week before Once that afternoon he found

himself alone with her in a quiet part of the woods, where the long

branches of a great oak caround, and for that Anna sat down upon the gnarled

roots of the tree, and, tossing her hat upon the grass, exclaimed,

"How nice and pleasant it is here Come, sit down, too, while I tell

you about my class in Sunday-school, and that poor Mrs Hobbs across

the et her, will you? I told her you would

visit her the oftener when I was gone Do you know she cried because I

was going? It ht for