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09 - The Old Captain · Queen Hildegarde

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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine of Queen Hildegard we Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards.
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  Speaker 1: This bluevox according is in the public domain. Chapter nine
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  Speaker 1: the old Captain. Let me see, said Farmer Hartley, as
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  Speaker 1: he gathered up the reins and turned Old Nance's head
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  Speaker 1: towards the village, while Hildegard, on the seat beside him,
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  Speaker 1: turned back to wave a merry farewell to NSS Lucie,
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  Speaker 1: who stood smiling in the porch. Let me see have
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  Speaker 1: you burned off the farm before, Haldy, since you came
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  Speaker 1: here no colns, replied Hilda cheerily. And I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: I should be going now for mar Hartley, for not
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  Speaker 1: for being sat I promised myself that she should not
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  Speaker 1: wear that ugly straws and bonnet again. I wonder why
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  Speaker 1: anything so hideous has ever invented as straw burnett. Do
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  Speaker 1: you mean, said the farmer, something like a long sugar
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  Speaker 1: scoop or turn alike? Yes, just that, said Hilda, and
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  Speaker 1: coming down over her poor dear eyes, saw that she
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  Speaker 1: cannot see anything except for a few inches straight before her. Well,
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  Speaker 1: said the farm meditatively. I remember when them bernets was
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  Speaker 1: considered real handsome, ma'am Lucy had one when she was
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  Speaker 1: a girl. I mind it, try to well a white straw,
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  Speaker 1: it was blue rubbonds on top of it, come close
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  Speaker 1: round her ponty face, and I used to have so
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  Speaker 1: settle along and get round in front of her before
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  Speaker 1: I could get a look at her. I had driver
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  Speaker 1: a grudge again the bannet on that account. But I
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  Speaker 1: supposed it was handsome, as everybody said, so I never
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  Speaker 1: see a bonnet of other kind, continued Thou, thinking of
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  Speaker 1: miss Maker and Melia Tyson I swam makes me laugh
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  Speaker 1: now to think of him. Who are they? Asked Tiler
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  Speaker 1: gard eagerly, for she delighted in the farmer's stories, Please
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  Speaker 1: tell me about them. The farmer shook his head, as
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  Speaker 1: was his wont when he was about to relapse into reminiscence,
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  Speaker 1: and gave old Nancy several thoughtful talks to the whip,
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  Speaker 1: which she highly resented. All Miss Meeker, he said, presently
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  Speaker 1: she was a character. She was. She didn't belong hereabouts,
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  Speaker 1: but down south somewhere. But she was carrying to care
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  Speaker 1: first Tyson. And when Ephirs's wife died, she came to
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  Speaker 1: stop with him a spell and look out for his children.
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  Speaker 1: Three children. There was little care first married and Malia
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  Speaker 1: Malia she was apart, lively, little girl with snapping black
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  Speaker 1: eyes and considerable of a will of her own. And
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  Speaker 1: Miss Baker she was putti shtout and she took things
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  Speaker 1: easy just as they came, and let the children, and
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  Speaker 1: Melia especially do put as much as they are mind too. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: One day happened in to see care Firs about her
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  Speaker 1: pairs pos tears. I was thinking more by Carefuss was out,
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  Speaker 1: but Miss Maker said he'd be writing. She reckoned and
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  Speaker 1: asked me to take a cheer and wait. So I
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  Speaker 1: sat down, and while I was eating, income Meilia and
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  Speaker 1: says she say, and silly. Miss Maker's name was Chriscilla, say,
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  Speaker 1: and see can I go down and play with Eddie?
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  Speaker 1: He wants me to come real bad? Can I? And silly?
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  Speaker 1: Not today? Dearie, says Miss Maker. He was dug to
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  Speaker 1: play with Eddie yesterday, and I reckon that'll do for
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  Speaker 1: one while, she says. I looked at little Melia and
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  Speaker 1: her eyes were snapping like calls. She didn't say nothing,
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  Speaker 1: but she just just cook and showed her elbow right
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  Speaker 1: through the plate glass winder. Oh, Carefus had had his
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  Speaker 1: house made over, and he was real proud of his
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  Speaker 1: plate glass winders. And know how much that cost him,
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  Speaker 1: because to good chum. And she showed her elbow eye
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  Speaker 1: through it and smashed it into shivers. I jumped up under,
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  Speaker 1: startled by the crash, but all mismaker. She just looked
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  Speaker 1: up as if she was a little bit surprised. But
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  Speaker 1: nothing worth mentioning, why, Honney, says she, in her sload
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  Speaker 1: rolling kind of way. I didn't know you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go there bad. Put on your bonnet and go on
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  Speaker 1: play with Eddity's minute, says she. Ho, Ho, Ho, them
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  Speaker 1: wass have very word an Melia. She tossed her burnt
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  Speaker 1: on one of them strowshakers because and that's what made
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  Speaker 1: me think of the story, and jes shook the glass
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  Speaker 1: out in her sleeve. I didn't know why the child
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  Speaker 1: warn't cut to pieces, but she didn't seem to have
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  Speaker 1: got no heart, and made her face at her aunt
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  Speaker 1: and off she went. That's the way them children was
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  Speaker 1: brought up, poor things, cried Hilda. What became of them?
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  Speaker 1: From her? Hartley meinly she ran often married. Circus Fellow,
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  Speaker 1: replied the farmer and the boys I don't likely know
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  Speaker 1: what became of him. They went out west, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: and after Meliam married Kafirst went out to join him.
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  Speaker 1: And I ain't had nothing of them for years. By
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  Speaker 1: this time they were ating through the main street of
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  Speaker 1: the little village, and presently stopped before an unpretending little shop,
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  Speaker 1: in the window of which I displayed some rather fallen
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  Speaker 1: looking hats and bonnets. Here are hardy, said the farmer,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to the shop with a flourish office. Yes, why
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  Speaker 1: get the styles first hand? Have to come from New
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  Speaker 1: York to Glenfield to get the little thing you see.
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  Speaker 1: I see love Tilda springing lightly from the wagon. I'll
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  Speaker 1: call for in about half an hour, And with a
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  Speaker 1: kindly note, the farmer drove away down the street. In
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  Speaker 1: the dead entered the dingy little shop with some misgivings.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I shall find something fresh, she said to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Those things in the window look as if they had
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  Speaker 1: been here since the flood. She quickly made friends with
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  Speaker 1: a brisk little Millienna, and they were soon turning over
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  Speaker 1: the meager store of hearts streamed and untrimmed. This is real, testy,
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  Speaker 1: said the little woman, lifting with honest pride, and a
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  Speaker 1: larming structure of green satin. Some struggling cock's feathers are
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  Speaker 1: doing their best to hide, elder shaddered, said pleasantly. Rather
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  Speaker 1: heavy for farmer, don't you think so? It would be
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  Speaker 1: better for winter hurt? What is this? She added, drawing
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  Speaker 1: from the further stretches of the works, and untrimmed hert
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  Speaker 1: of rough yellow straws. I think perhaps this will do, Misspin.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my land, no, don't want that, cried the little
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  Speaker 1: millien aghast. That's only common dweams anyhow, and it's been
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  Speaker 1: in that box three years. Them ships ain't one now.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind, said La merrily. It is perfectly fresh, and
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  Speaker 1: I like the ship. Just wait till you see it, trimmed,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Bain, May I rummage a little among your drawers.
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  Speaker 1: I will not trust the things about. A piece of
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  Speaker 1: dotted marl and a bunch of soft pink crosses rewarded
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  Speaker 1: her such, and with this and a bit of rose
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  Speaker 1: colored ribbon, she proceeded to make the rafts draw into
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  Speaker 1: so dainty and bewitching, a thing that Miss Bin sat
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  Speaker 1: fairly petrified with amazement on her little haircloth sofa in
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  Speaker 1: the bark shop. Why why she said? That ain't the
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  Speaker 1: bit of all the testes? Thought I ever see? Never
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  Speaker 1: told me you'd land the tread. This last was rather reproachful,
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  Speaker 1: said and Hilda, much amused, hastened to reassure the good woman. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I never learned that tread, she said. I take it
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  Speaker 1: to it naturally, I think, and I've watched my mother,
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  Speaker 1: who does it much better than I. She must be
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  Speaker 1: a first class trimmer, then replied Miss ban emphatically. When
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  Speaker 1: one of them big houses in New York, I reckoned,
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  Speaker 1: don't she? Hildegard laughed, but before she could reply, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Pin went on to say, well, you are a stranger
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  Speaker 1: to me, but you've got a pretty good countenance, and
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  Speaker 1: we came with farmer hockey. That's reference enough. She paused
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  Speaker 1: and reflected, while Hildegard, putting the finishing touches to the
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  Speaker 1: pretty heart, wondered what was coming. I wasn't cartilating to
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  Speaker 1: hire help. This sum continued the milling. But you're so hardy,
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  Speaker 1: and humor could give ye ideas from time to time.
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  Speaker 1: So if you'd like a job, i'dn't know, but i'd
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  Speaker 1: like to hie. The heiress of the old Grahams wanted
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  Speaker 1: to laugh at this knive's proposal, but good feeling and
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  Speaker 1: good manners alive obad. She thanked miss Bin for her
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  Speaker 1: kind offer and explained that she was only spending her
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  Speaker 1: school vocation at Hartley Farm, that her time was fully occupied.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it is sy. The little Milena looked so
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  Speaker 1: disappointed that Hilda was saiged with a royal impulse and
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  Speaker 1: offered to go over the hats in the window while
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  Speaker 1: she waited for Farmer Hartley and freshened them up a bit. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I wished you ould said, poor miss Pin. Fact is
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  Speaker 1: I ain't done so well as I could wish this season.
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  Speaker 1: Fox is dreadful, afraid of buying new things nowadays. Then
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  Speaker 1: followed a series of small confidences on the haircloth, while
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  Speaker 1: Hilda's finger flea above the fallen hats and bonnets, changing
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  Speaker 1: a ribbon here and a flower there, patting and poking
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  Speaker 1: and producing really marveless results. Another tale of patient labor, suffering, privation,
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  Speaker 1: an invalid mother and an innocent brother for this frail
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  Speaker 1: little woman to support doctor's bill's and her times, and
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  Speaker 1: stringy patrons who were as fraid of a dollar bill
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  Speaker 1: as if it was the small pox. Hilda's eyes filled
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  Speaker 1: with tears of sympathy, and one great drop fell on
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  Speaker 1: the grin satin hat, but was instantly covered by the
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  Speaker 1: wrath of ivy, which was replacing the stirring cocks feathers. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I declare to gracious, proclaimed miss Bin. You never known
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  Speaker 1: that for the same hurt now, Wonda. I know it
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  Speaker 1: was handsome before, but it's enough sight handsomer now. I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't wonder her, mike if Miss Pasley bore that hat now.
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  Speaker 1: She's been kind of hungering at height last two or
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  Speaker 1: three times she was in here, but every time she
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  Speaker 1: tried it on, she'd say, no, twas too sure. If
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  Speaker 1: she guessed, well, I do say, you make a great
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  Speaker 1: mistake not going into the trade, for you're born to eat.
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  Speaker 1: That's plain. When a person wan't to a thing is
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  Speaker 1: thrown away. You may say, on anything else, what was
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  Speaker 1: you thinking? But at this moment came a cheery call
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  Speaker 1: off Hardy Haldy and Hilda Dad, cutting short the little
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  Speaker 1: woman's profused thanks and invitations to call again, bade her
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  Speaker 1: accordial goodbye, and ran out to the wagon, carrying her
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  Speaker 1: patches neatly done up in brown paper. Still her, said
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  Speaker 1: the farmer, making room for her on the seat beside him.
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  Speaker 1: Look out for the al come Aldi brought out the
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  Speaker 1: hull shop heavy. Well, I shall look for great things.
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  Speaker 1: The next few days put up ah Nancy, and they
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  Speaker 1: went jinkling back along the street again. As they passed
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  Speaker 1: the queer little shop with their antiquated sign boards, the
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  Speaker 1: farmer had something to say about each one. How omnium
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  Speaker 1: grub here the grocer mistis dried apples. One morning Lavi
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  Speaker 1: accrossed his job boy was his sister's son too, of
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  Speaker 1: having eaten them, as if any living boy would pick
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  Speaker 1: out tried apples to eat when he had a whole
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  Speaker 1: stopped to so. And how the very next day, a
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  Speaker 1: man coming to buy a pair of boots omnium grub
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  Speaker 1: hooked down a pair from the ceiling where all the
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  Speaker 1: boots hung, and found them chock full of dried apples,
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  Speaker 1: which the rats had been busily storing in them and
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  Speaker 1: their companion pairs. How Enno pills Barry the portes Sari
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  Speaker 1: like the cuzzled old man Grout, sending him writing food
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  Speaker 1: instead of the dark mixture for his dispepsy. How Beola Parkins,
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  Speaker 1: who lived over the dry goods store, had been bed
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  Speaker 1: ridden for nineteen years till the house where she was
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  Speaker 1: leaving caught fire, whereupon she jumped out of bed and
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  Speaker 1: grabbed an umbrella and opened it and ran down street
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  Speaker 1: in a red flannel ground the umbrella of her head, shouting,
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  Speaker 1: somebody go save my birds? Did I instead from it
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  Speaker 1: for nineteen years, and I'm never going to starve from
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  Speaker 1: it again. Somebody go save my birds? Did? And was
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  Speaker 1: it saved? Asked till the laughing no, said the farmer,
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  Speaker 1: cuzn't worth saving nohow beside. If it had been, she
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  Speaker 1: had gone back to eat and stay there possi crout
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  Speaker 1: who did her chosh it into the fire, and she
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  Speaker 1: was a well woman to the day of her death.
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  Speaker 1: Now the houses struggled father and farther apart, and at
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  Speaker 1: last the village was fell left behind. Old Nancy pricked
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  Speaker 1: up her ears and quickened her pace a little, looking right,
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  Speaker 1: and left with glances of pleasure as the familiar fields
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  Speaker 1: ranged themselves along either side of the road. Hilda too
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  Speaker 1: was glad to be in the free country again, and
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  Speaker 1: she looked with delight at the banks of farm the
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  Speaker 1: stone walls covered with white, starry clematis, and the tangle
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  Speaker 1: of BlackBerry vines which made the pleasant roads of Fragranton's sweet.
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  Speaker 1: She was silent for some time. At last, she said,
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  Speaker 1: half timidly, Farmer Hartley, who promised to tell me about
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  Speaker 1: your father some day? Don't you think this would be
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  Speaker 1: a good time? I have been so much interested by
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  Speaker 1: what I have heard of. That's curious, now, said Farmer Hartley, slowly,
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  Speaker 1: flicking the dust with the long lash of his whip. Scurious, Hardy,
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  Speaker 1: that you should mention father just now, because I happened
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  Speaker 1: to be thinking of him myself that very minute. Old father,
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  Speaker 1: he added meditatively. Well, surely he was a character. Father
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  Speaker 1: was folks about here, he said, turning suddenly to Hilda
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  Speaker 1: and looking in me at her. Think Father was reving
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  Speaker 1: crazy or might deniy eat. But he worried nothing of
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  Speaker 1: the sort. His mind was as keen as a razor
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  Speaker 1: and a straight edged except just on one subject. On
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  Speaker 1: that he was so to say, a little well, a
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  Speaker 1: little touched. And that was queried Hilda. Why you see,
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  Speaker 1: Haldy father had been a seafaring man all his days,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be seen all man or countries, and all
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  Speaker 1: men or folks, and tended to be wondered that if
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  Speaker 1: he got a little bit confused sometimes between the things
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  Speaker 1: he'd seemed and the things he owned. Long short of
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  Speaker 1: it was Father thought he had a kind of treasure
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  Speaker 1: hid away somewhere, like the married fellows used to have,
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  Speaker 1: if they did have it, He added, slowly, I never
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  Speaker 1: mind half believed none of them yans. But father he
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  Speaker 1: thought he heard it. And no mistake, do you think
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  Speaker 1: I was five years costing round Brazil for nothing? He says,
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  Speaker 1: there's diamonds in Brazil. He says, all minds of em.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some demons out of Brazil too, And then
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  Speaker 1: he'd wrink and laugh out Attie, the way he mused.
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  Speaker 1: Was always laughing. Father was, And when times was heard,
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  Speaker 1: he said to my mother, wealthy, you won't sell the
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  Speaker 1: diamonds yet, awhile, not this time, wealthy. But they are far,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my woman, they're far. And when my mother say, why,
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  Speaker 1: to goodness be they Thomas would only chuckle and laugh
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  Speaker 1: and shake his head. Then there was story about the
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  Speaker 1: ruby necklace. How we youngsters used to open our eyes
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  Speaker 1: at that. We lived it to every word of it. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: what was it, cried Hilda. Tell me, and I will
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  Speaker 1: believe it too. He is to tell of a Malay pirate,
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  Speaker 1: said the farmer, that he fit and lived somewhere off
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  Speaker 1: in the south seas. When he sealed the lively polly,
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  Speaker 1: that was she was a clipper, father always said. And
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  Speaker 1: he ran aboard the black fellers and smashed their school
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  Speaker 1: and throwed their grance overboard, and memoralized and generally. They
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  Speaker 1: took to their boats and paddled off what was left
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  Speaker 1: on em. And he and his crew set the schooner
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  Speaker 1: and found a woman locked up the cabbin, an injured princess.
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  Speaker 1: Others said she was, and they holding her for a ransom. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Father found out somehow where she come from, jerv or
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  Speaker 1: Monkey or some of them places out of the spice box,
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  Speaker 1: took her home and hunted up her parents and guardians,
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  Speaker 1: and handed her oversafe and sound. They the guardians was
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  Speaker 1: great people while they lived, and they wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: father a pottermany, but he said they weren't that kind.
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  Speaker 1: But my hank is cheaper, says she. It was as
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  Speaker 1: good as a meal of vietles to me to smack
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  Speaker 1: that black fellow says he I don't want no pay
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  Speaker 1: for it. And as for the lady, twas a pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to oblige her, he says, And I'd do it again
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  Speaker 1: any day in the week except Sunday, and I don't fight.
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  Speaker 1: It's a rule when I can help it. Then the
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  Speaker 1: princess she tried to kiss his hand, but Father said
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  Speaker 1: the guests that weren't quite proper, and the guardian seemed
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  Speaker 1: to think so too, So then she took a ruby
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  Speaker 1: necklace off her neck. She was all done up in shawls,
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  Speaker 1: father said, and silk and gold chains and farm things,
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  Speaker 1: so it's he couldn't see nothing but her eyes, but
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  Speaker 1: there was better wood seeing than any other woman's halface
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  Speaker 1: whatever he said, and gave it to him, and made
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  Speaker 1: sense that he must get that anyhow. Then she said
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  Speaker 1: something to one of the guardians who spoke a little Portuguese.
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  Speaker 1: Father understanding it a little too, and he told Father
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  Speaker 1: she said she was the drops of her blood he
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  Speaker 1: had saved, and he must keep it, remember her, just
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  Speaker 1: like drops of blood, he said. The rubies was strung
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  Speaker 1: along on a gold chain, so he took it and
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  Speaker 1: said he warn't likely to forget about it. And then
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  Speaker 1: he made his book, and the guardian said he was
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  Speaker 1: their father and their mother and their great aunt, and
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  Speaker 1: i'd know what all, and made him stay to supper,
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  Speaker 1: and didn't it nothing for a week afterward. The farmer paused,
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  Speaker 1: and hild the guard drew a long breath. Oh, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: what a delightful story from Hartley. And you don't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I do ever heard of it. I'm sure it is true. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you see, said the farmer meditatively. Twas true? What become
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  Speaker 1: o the necklace? That's what I say. Father believed it
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, and he thought he had that necklace as
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  Speaker 1: sure as you think. You have that bannet in my hands.
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  Speaker 1: But Clarrent never found hide nor hear of it. Might
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  Speaker 1: he not have sold it, wilder suggested Somma. Hartley shook
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  Speaker 1: his head. No, he said, you weren't that kind. Besides,
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  Speaker 1: he thought, to the day of his death that he
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  Speaker 1: hed it sure enough. Where's the princess necklace? He'd say,
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  Speaker 1: don't you forget it? That wealthy along with the demons,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And then he laughed like he was fit
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  Speaker 1: to burst. Why when he was aptly dying, so far
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  Speaker 1: gone he couldn't speak plain called me to him, and
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  Speaker 1: made signs he wanted to tell me something. I stood down, closed,
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  Speaker 1: and he whispered something that all I could hear was
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: diamonds and dig, And then in a minute was all over.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Poor old father, he'd been a good skeeper and a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: good man all his days. He was silent for a
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: time while he had pondered over the story, which she
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: could not make up her mind to disbelieve altogether. Well, well,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: and here we are the old farm again, said the farmer,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: pleasantly as old Nancy turned in at the yellow gate.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Here I've been talking. They were lasting way home in time.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: You must marry and get into the house, Haldy, for
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: i'd know how the machines managed to run without tea
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: all this time. I sha'n't take ye out again if
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I find anything's wrong. End of chapter nine