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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER I
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She had slipped down with the tray, and so twisted her foot that she could not stand.

The village surgeon was called in; the vicar got better, but Sophy was incapacitated for a long time; and she was informed that she must never again walk much or engage in any occupation which required her to stand long on her feet.

As soon as she was comparatively well she spoke to him alone.

Since she was forbidden to walk and bustle about, and, indeed, could not do so, it became her duty to leave.

She could very well work at something sitting down, and she had an aunt a seamstress.
The parson had been very greatly moved by what she had suffered on his account, and he exclaimed, 'No, Sophy; lame or not lame, I cannot let you go.


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