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She can work it herself, beautifully: and so can I, but not so well.

It was a great delight to learn.

Miss Power was so interested at first that she was sending messages from morning till night.

And did you hear the new clock ?' 'Is it a new one ?--Yes, I heard it.' 'The old one was quite worn out; so Paula has put it in the cellar, and had this new one made, though it still strikes on the old bell.

It tells the seconds, but the old one, which my very great grandfather erected in the eighteenth century, only told the hours.


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