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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE TENTH
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She took her doll, and stood for a moment deep in thought.

What was she going to do next?
We were not kept long in suspense.

She suddenly put her little hot fat hand into mine, and tried to pull me after her out of the room.
"What do you want ?" I asked.
Jicks answered in one untranslatable compound word: "Man-Gee-gee." I suffered myself to be pulled out of the room--to see "Man-Gee-gee," to play "Man-Gee-gee," or to eat "Man-Gee-gee," it was impossible to tell which.

I was pulled along the passage--I was pulled out to the front door.

There--having approached the house inaudibly to us, over the grass--stood the horse, cart, and man, waiting to take the case of gold and silver plates back to London.


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