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Jeremy

CHAPTER IX
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He said once to Mary that she should imitate Charlotte, and the scene that followed was terrible.

Mary, from that moment, hated Charlotte with an overpowering hatred.
Here this year they were again.

Mrs.Le Page with her long neck, her beautiful pearl ear-rings, her pale watery eyes and her tapering fingers; Charlotte just as before, silent, beautiful and precious.

There was again a tea-party at Cow Farm, and on this occasion Jeremy was asked to show Hamlet.

But Hamlet behaved badly, trying to jump upon Charlotte's white frock and soil her blue ribbons.


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