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08 - The Letter · Queen Hildegarde

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eight of When Hildergard We Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox according is in the public domain. Chapter eight
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  Speaker 1: the letter Nurse Lucy said Hildata that evening, as they
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  Speaker 1: sat in the porch after tea, Why have you never
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  Speaker 1: told me about Pink Chuck, about her being a cripple?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I had no idea of it till I
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  Speaker 1: went to see her to day. How terrible it is?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder that I haven't told you, dear, replied Nurse Lucie, placidly.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose I am so used to Pink as she is.
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  Speaker 1: I forget that she ever was like other people. She
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  Speaker 1: is a dear, good child. He's summon, Jacob calls her.
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  Speaker 1: He says that whenever he feels impatient or put out,
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  Speaker 1: he likes to go down and look at Pink and
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  Speaker 1: hear her talk. He takes the crook right out of me,
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  Speaker 1: he says, poor Jacob. But how did it happen, asked Tilda.
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  Speaker 1: She's she was only three years when she Oh think
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  Speaker 1: of it, Mass Lucy, it is too dreadful. Tell me
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  Speaker 1: how it happened. Don't ask me, my dear, said Dame Hartley, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: Why should you hear anything so painful? It will only
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  Speaker 1: haunt your mind as it haunted mine for years. After
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  Speaker 1: the worst of it was, there was no need of it.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother was ing flighty, careless girl, and she didn't
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  Speaker 1: look after her baby as she should have done. That
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  Speaker 1: is all you need know, Yilder, my dear poor Susan
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  Speaker 1: shak He took the flightiness out of her and made
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  Speaker 1: her the aunchie, melancholy soul she has been ever since then.
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  Speaker 1: Babo was born, and soon after her husband died, and
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  Speaker 1: since then she has had a hard time to find
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  Speaker 1: for herself. But Pink has never been any trouble to her,
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  Speaker 1: only a help and a comfort, and her neighbors have
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  Speaker 1: done what they could from time to time. Dame Hartley
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  Speaker 1: might have said that she and her husband had kept
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  Speaker 1: this desolate widow and her children constavation, threw many a
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  Speaker 1: long winter, and had given her the means of earning
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  Speaker 1: her daily bread in summer, had clothed the children and
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  Speaker 1: provided comforts for the crippled girl. But this was not
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  Speaker 1: Maslussi's way. The neighbors had done what they could, she said,
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  Speaker 1: and now Babo was earning good wages for a boy
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  Speaker 1: and was sure to get on well, being bright and industrious.
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  Speaker 1: And missus Chuck took him ving to do for the neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: and went out sometimes to work by the day, and
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  Speaker 1: so they were really getting on very well, better than
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  Speaker 1: one could have hoped. Hildegard laid her head against the
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  Speaker 1: good damped shoulder and fell into a brown study. Naslusi
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  Speaker 1: seemed also in a thoughtful mood, and so the two
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  Speaker 1: sat quietly in the soft twilight till the red glow
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  Speaker 1: feaded in the west and left in its stad a
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  Speaker 1: single star gleaming like a living jewel in the purple sky.
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  Speaker 1: All the birds were asleep, saved the entire Wowie presented
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  Speaker 1: his plea for the castigation of the unhappy William with
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  Speaker 1: ceaseless energy. A little knight Bridge came up and said
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  Speaker 1: pleasant soft things to the leaves, which rustled gently in reply.
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  Speaker 1: And the crickets gave their usual evening concert, beginning with
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  Speaker 1: a movement in G sharp a leg rock. One other
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  Speaker 1: sound there was none until by and by the noise
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  Speaker 1: of wells was heard, and the click of Old Nancy's roofs,
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  Speaker 1: and out of the gathering darkness, farmer Hartley appeared just
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  Speaker 1: to turn from the village, whither he had gone to
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  Speaker 1: make arrangements about Slimsey. Oll maum lussy, he said, cheerfully,
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  Speaker 1: throwing the reins on Nancy's neck and jumping from wagon.
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  Speaker 1: Is that you setting there piers to me? I see
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  Speaker 1: something like a white upon glooming out of the dark. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Jacob answered, mum Lucy, I am here, and so is healed.
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  Speaker 1: The evening has been so lovely. We have not had
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  Speaker 1: the heart to light the lamps, but I've just been
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  Speaker 1: sitting here out in the sunset. He'll come in now, though,
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  Speaker 1: she added, leading the way into the house. You'll be
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  Speaker 1: wanting some supper, my man? Or did he stop at
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  Speaker 1: cousin Sarah's. I stopped at Cyrus, replied the farmer. Oh, yes, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: gave me some supper. Though she warrant in no mood
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  Speaker 1: for seeing company, even her own king, poor sir, She
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  Speaker 1: was not dreadful taking sure enough? Why what was the matter,
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  Speaker 1: asked him hartly, as she trimmed and lighted the great
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  Speaker 1: lamb and drew the short curtains of turkey had got
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  Speaker 1: on across the windows. Is Agnes sake again? Should we gwander?
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  Speaker 1: If he was by this time, replied the farm, but
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  Speaker 1: you warn't at the beginning of it. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: how it was. And he sat down in his great
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  Speaker 1: leather chair and stretched his legs out comfortably before him,
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  Speaker 1: while his wife filled his pipe and brought it to
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  Speaker 1: him a little attention which she never forgot. Sorry, she
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  Speaker 1: brought a new bernet yesterday, Farmer Hartley continued, puffing away
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  Speaker 1: at the pipe. She's kind of saving, you know, Surrey is,
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  Speaker 1: as Lucy nodded with a knowing air. And she hadn't
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  Speaker 1: had a new bonnet for ten years. I do know
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  Speaker 1: she's had one for twenty, he added in parentheses. I
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  Speaker 1: never seed her with one to my knowledge. Well, Garls
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  Speaker 1: was pestering her and saying she didn't look fit to
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  Speaker 1: go to meeting the old bernit. So at last she
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  Speaker 1: gave away and went and bought a new one twas
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  Speaker 1: one of these new fangled shapes. What was it? Lizzie
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  Speaker 1: called it something Chinese? I reckon fansong? That was it?
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  Speaker 1: Fun home, wasn't it? Perhaps? As till the match amused,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I said, warn't it? Said the farmer. Fansong
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  Speaker 1: fan throng wah was the odds ts a queer looking thing. Anyhow,
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  Speaker 1: I should think evenough all it well, I'm coming to that.
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  Speaker 1: Sarri showed it to the girls and they liked it
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  Speaker 1: fast rate. Then she laid it on the kitchen table
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  Speaker 1: and went upstairs to get some ribbon and stuffed put
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  Speaker 1: on it. She rummaged round considerable upstairs, and when she
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  Speaker 1: came down, lo and behold the Bunnit was gone well.
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  Speaker 1: Sarie hunted high and she hunted low. She called the girls,
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  Speaker 1: thinking they played a trick on her and hidden it
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  Speaker 1: for fun, But they hadn't, and they all set to
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  Speaker 1: unsearched the house from garret to sea, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: find hide, nor hair or the bonnet. At last, I
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  Speaker 1: gave it up and sot down, out of breath and
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  Speaker 1: mad enough to eat somebody. It's been stole, she say.
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  Speaker 1: Some honorary creatur came along while I was up stairs,
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  Speaker 1: says she, and sid it lying around the table and
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  Speaker 1: carried it off. Says she. I'd like to get hold
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  Speaker 1: of her, She says, I guess she would. Didn't steal
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  Speaker 1: no more banns for one while, says she. I had
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  Speaker 1: come in by that time, and she was telling me
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  Speaker 1: all about it, just a gobnet knet. The door opened,
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  Speaker 1: and Abner came senttering in mild and moony as usual.
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  Speaker 1: Sary says he. O ho ho, it makes me love
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  Speaker 1: to think country, Sir, says he. I'ldn't buy no more
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  Speaker 1: baskets without handles if I was you. They ain't convenient
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  Speaker 1: to carry, says he. And with that he sets down
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  Speaker 1: on the table that fan chong burnt. He'd be mixing
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  Speaker 1: chicken feed on it, and he'd held it first by
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  Speaker 1: one side and then by the other, and he'd dropped
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  Speaker 1: it in the mud too. I reckon for the looks
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  Speaker 1: of it. You never see such a looking thing in
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  Speaker 1: all your bond days as that burnet was, Sir. She
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  Speaker 1: looked at it, and then she looked at Abna, and
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  Speaker 1: then at the burnet again, and then she let fly,
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  Speaker 1: Poor sir, said Nurse Lucy, wiping tears of merriment from
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  Speaker 1: her eyes. What did she say? I can't tell you
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  Speaker 1: what she said, replied the farmer. What did your old
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  Speaker 1: cart say when spot controlled over her tail the other day?
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  Speaker 1: And yet there was language enough in what Sarre said?
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  Speaker 1: I tell you. The whole dictionary was flying round the
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  Speaker 1: at room for about ten minutes Websters and abridged nothing
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  Speaker 1: less and Abner. He just stood there, bobbing his head
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  Speaker 1: up and down and opening and shutting his mouth, as
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  Speaker 1: if he'd like to say something if he could get
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  Speaker 1: a chance. But when Sarey was so out of breath
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  Speaker 1: that she couldn't say another word and had to stop
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, Abna just says Sirry. I guess you're
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  Speaker 1: a little excited, Jacob, And we'll go out and take
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  Speaker 1: a look at the stalk, says he. And come back
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  Speaker 1: when you're feeling calm. And he nods to me and
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  Speaker 1: out both goes before Syy could get her breath again.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say nothing because I was laughing so inside
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  Speaker 1: equivalent't abner. He walked along kind of solemn, shaking his head.
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  Speaker 1: Heavery little while and opening and shutting his mouth. When
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  Speaker 1: you got to the stable door, he looked at me
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  Speaker 1: a mute and then he said the tongue is I uldr? Remember, Jacob.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was the kind of curious looking basket, though,
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  Speaker 1: And that was every word he said about it. Oh
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  Speaker 1: what delightful funny, people cried, Hilda. What did the wife
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  Speaker 1: say when you came in? To supper from a heartley.
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  Speaker 1: She Warunda, replied the farmer. She had a headache, the
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  Speaker 1: girl said, and had gone to bed. I should think
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  Speaker 1: she would have heard her headecke Papa, he added, rising suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: and beginning to search in his capacious pockets, I declare
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  Speaker 1: for tree fad to go. Have forgotten held this letter,
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  Speaker 1: Sali and Urbanney put everything else out, drop my head.
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  Speaker 1: Hilda sprang up in delight to receive the envelope which
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  Speaker 1: the farmer handed to her, but her face fell a
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  Speaker 1: little when she saw that it was not from her parents.
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  Speaker 1: She reflected, however, that she had had a doubled letter
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  Speaker 1: only two days before, and that she could not expect
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  Speaker 1: another for a week. As mister and missus Graham brought
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  Speaker 1: always with military punctuality, there was no doubt as to
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  Speaker 1: the authorship of the letter. The delicate pointed on writing
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  Speaker 1: the tiny seal of gilded walks, a faint perf from
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  Speaker 1: which the missive excelled all said to her at once
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  Speaker 1: Marge Everton, with a feeling which, if not quite reluctance,
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  Speaker 1: was still not quite alacritty Hldeggard, broke the pretty seal
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  Speaker 1: with its scupid holding a rose to his lips and
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  Speaker 1: read as follows. Sarah Togga, July twenty eth, My dearest
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  Speaker 1: sweetest Hilda, Can it be possible that you have been
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  Speaker 1: away a whole month and that I have not returned
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  Speaker 1: to you. I am awfully ashamed, but I have not
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  Speaker 1: been so too busy. It has been out of the question.
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  Speaker 1: Papa decided quite suddenly to come here instead of going
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  Speaker 1: to long brunch, and you can imagine the frontic amount
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  Speaker 1: of work Mamma and I had to get ready. One
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  Speaker 1: has to dress so much at Saratoga, you know. And
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  Speaker 1: we cannot just send an order to parry as you do,
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  Speaker 1: my dear Queen, for all we want, but have to
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  Speaker 1: scratch round. I know you don't allow your subjects to
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  Speaker 1: use lang, but we do scratch round and nothing else
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  Speaker 1: can express it and get things made here. I have
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  Speaker 1: a lovely pale blue and rietta cloth made like that
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  Speaker 1: rose colored gown of yours that I admire so much
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  Speaker 1: that you said I might copy. Mamma says it was
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  Speaker 1: awfully good of you, and that she wouldn't let any
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  Speaker 1: one copy her French tresses if she had there. But
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  Speaker 1: I told her you were awfully good that was hi.
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  Speaker 1: Well when I have a white NaN's veiley made with
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  Speaker 1: Chripo box plates and a lovely pointed overskirt copied with
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  Speaker 1: a don of one dress of mammas and a dark
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  Speaker 1: red flora, and oh perfect fruff of fosh dresses of course,
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  Speaker 1: two sweet white launs, one tamed with Valencians. I had Valenciance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but Mamma will make me have it because
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  Speaker 1: she thinks it's usuant flat, and one with a new
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  Speaker 1: Russian lace and a pink satin and two or three
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  Speaker 1: light chambers. But now I know you will be dying
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  Speaker 1: to hear about my hearts, for you always say that
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  Speaker 1: a heart makes the costume, and so it does. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my dearest, I have one red fan hat and only one.
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  Speaker 1: Mama says, I cannot expect to have more until I
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  Speaker 1: come out, which is bitter. However, this one is a
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  Speaker 1: beauty and yet cost only thirty dollars. It goes well
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  Speaker 1: with nearly all my dresses and is immensely becoming. All
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  Speaker 1: the girls say, very high, long pointed wings and stiff blows. Simple,
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  Speaker 1: my dear doesn't express it. You know, I love simplicity,
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  Speaker 1: but it is red funny to a degree, and everybody
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  Speaker 1: has noticed it. Well, my dearest Queen, here am I
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  Speaker 1: running on about myself as if I were not actually
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  Speaker 1: expiring to hear about you. What my feelings were when
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  Speaker 1: I called at your house on that Vetals Tuesday and
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  Speaker 1: was told that you had gone to spend the summer
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  Speaker 1: on a farm in the depths of the country. That
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  Speaker 1: is my power to tell. I could not ask your
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  Speaker 1: mother many questions, for you know I am always a
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  Speaker 1: little bit afraid of her, for she is perfectly lovely
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  Speaker 1: to me. She was very quiet and sweet as usual,
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  Speaker 1: and spoke as if it were the most natural thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world for a brilliant society girl. But that
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  Speaker 1: is what you are, hinder An, though you are only
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  Speaker 1: a school girl and you never can be anything else
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  Speaker 1: to spend her summer in a wretched farmhouse among pigs
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  Speaker 1: and cows and dreadful, ignorant people. Of course, hil De dearest,
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  Speaker 1: you know that my admiration for your mother is simply immense,
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  Speaker 1: and that I would not for I'll say one syllable
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  Speaker 1: against a judgment and that of your military angel of
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  Speaker 1: a father. But I must say it seemed to me
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  Speaker 1: more than strange, I assure you. I hardly closed my
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  Speaker 1: eyes for several nights thinking of the misery you must
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  Speaker 1: be under gold, For I know you, Hildergard, and the
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  Speaker 1: thought of my proud, fastidious, high bred queen being condemned
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  Speaker 1: to associate with clowns and laborers was really more than
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  Speaker 1: I could bear. Do Write to me, Darling, and tell
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  Speaker 1: me how you are enduring it. You are always so sensitive.
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  Speaker 1: Why I can see your lip, carl now when any
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  Speaker 1: of the girls did anything that was not true, tough
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  Speaker 1: fake whom I fought, and the air with which you
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  Speaker 1: used to say the little things, my dear, are the
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  Speaker 1: only things. How true it is. I feel it more
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  Speaker 1: and more every day. So do right at once and
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  Speaker 1: let me know all about your dear self. I picture
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  Speaker 1: you to myself, sometimes pale and thin, with a white
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  Speaker 1: disdain at some poet or other speaks of in your face,
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  Speaker 1: but enduring all the horrors that you must be subjected
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  Speaker 1: to with your own dignity. Dearest Hilda, you are indeed
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  Speaker 1: a heroine, always Darling, your own deeply devoted and sympathizing merge.
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  Speaker 1: Hildegard looked up after reading this letter, and curiously enough
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  Speaker 1: her eyes fell directly on a little mirror which hung
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  Speaker 1: on the wall opposite. In it, she saw a rosy,
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  Speaker 1: laughing face which smiled back mischievously at her. There were
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  Speaker 1: dimples in the cheeks, and the gray eyes were fairly
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  Speaker 1: dancing with life and joyousness. Where was the wide disdain, dignity,
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  Speaker 1: pale and emaciation. Could this be magest Queen Hildegard, or rather,
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  Speaker 1: thought the girl with a sudden revulsion of feeling, Could
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  Speaker 1: this Hildergard ever have been the other? The form of
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  Speaker 1: the mings, long since dissociated from her thoughts and life,
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  Speaker 1: seemed to rise at Banko's coasts and stare at her
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  Speaker 1: with cold, disdainful eyes and supercilious scurl of the lip. Oh, dear,
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  Speaker 1: how dreadful it was to have been so odious? How
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  Speaker 1: could poor dear Papa and Mamma bless them, have endowered
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  Speaker 1: her as they did so patiently and sweetly, that they
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  Speaker 1: should see when they came back. She had only just
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  Speaker 1: begun yet that there were two months still before her,
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  Speaker 1: and in that time what could she not do? They
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  Speaker 1: should be surprised, those dear parents and Mudge, Why Marge
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  Speaker 1: be surprised, too, poor Madge to think of her in Saratoga,
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  Speaker 1: prinking and training herself like a gay bird in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of a wild dress, in diamonds and gayety, with
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  Speaker 1: no fields, no wood, no glen, no no kitchen. Hilda
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  Speaker 1: looked upon the room which she had learned so to love,
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  Speaker 1: trying to fancy Marge Everton in it, remembering too the
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  Speaker 1: bitterness of her first feeling about it. The lamp light
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  Speaker 1: shone cheerily on the yellow painted walls, the shining floor,
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  Speaker 1: the gleaming brass, copper and china. It lighted up the
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  Speaker 1: red curtains and made a hollow round Goodness Lucy's head
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  Speaker 1: as she bent over her soul. It played on the
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  Speaker 1: farmer's silver board spectacles as he poured with bittered brows
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  Speaker 1: and earnest look over the weekly paper which she had
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  Speaker 1: brought from the village, the good kind farm. Hilda gazed
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  Speaker 1: at him as he sat all unconscious, wondered why she
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  Speaker 1: had not seen at once our hands and he really was.
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  Speaker 1: The broad forehead with its deep, thoughtful furrows, the king
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  Speaker 1: yet kindly blue eyes, the sable silver hair and beard, which,
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  Speaker 1: if not exactly smooth, were still so picturesque, so Leonine,
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  Speaker 1: the firm, perhaps obstinate mouth, which could speak so wisely
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  Speaker 1: and smile so cordially. All this is combined to make
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  Speaker 1: up what the newspapers would call a singularly attractive exterior.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, how good he has been to me, thought chilled.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he is the best man in the world,
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  Speaker 1: next to Papa. Then she thought of Marge again and
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  Speaker 1: tried to fancy her in the red frond hat pretty mudge,
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  Speaker 1: which her black eyes and color fringe under the simplicity
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  Speaker 1: of the heaven aspiring windsome bows, And as she smiled
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  Speaker 1: at the image, there was beside it a fair head
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  Speaker 1: of pink chalk, looking out like a white rose from
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  Speaker 1: the depths of her danger strachana. Then she fancied herself,
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  Speaker 1: saying airily she knew just how she used to say it.
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  Speaker 1: The little things, my dear add the only things. And
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  Speaker 1: then she laughed aloud at the very funniness of it.
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  Speaker 1: Ood truth, said farmer hunkly, looking up from his paper
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  Speaker 1: with a smile. What's all this? Are you keeping all
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  Speaker 1: the jokes to yourself? Halty sonly? My letter that is so,
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  Speaker 1: fan replied he. I do not believe it would sink
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  Speaker 1: so funny to you from a Hartley because you don't
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  Speaker 1: know the writer. But have you finished your paper? And
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  Speaker 1: by you ready for Robin Hood? Well, I am haledy,
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  Speaker 1: said the good farmer, laying aside his paper and rubbing
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  Speaker 1: his hands with an air of pleasurable anticipation. Pieres to me,
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  Speaker 1: we left that good looking singing chap. What was his name,
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  Speaker 1: alan Adele, said wilder smiling, Ah, said the farmer, Allan
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  Speaker 1: adle Piers to me. We left him in ray the
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  Speaker 1: particklish situation. Oh but it comes out all right, cried Hilda, joyously,
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  Speaker 1: rising to fetch them wood brown book which she loved.
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  Speaker 1: You will see in the next chapter how delightfully Robin
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  Speaker 1: gets him out of the difficulty. She ran and brought
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  Speaker 1: the book and drew her chair up to the table,
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  Speaker 1: and all three prepared for an hour of solid enjoyment.
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  Speaker 1: Or before I begin, she said, I want you to
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  Speaker 1: promise from a Hartley to take me with you the
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  Speaker 1: next time you go to the village, and must buy
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  Speaker 1: a hat for pink chalk and Chapter eight