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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE FOURTH
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With the nurse breathless on one side of me, and Lucilla breathless on the other, I opened the book at the letter "E," and found the place, and read aloud these lines, as follows:-- "EXETER: A city and seaport in Devonshire.

Formerly the seat of the West Saxon Kings.

It has a large foreign and home commerce.

Population 33,738.
The Assizes for Devonshire are held at Exeter in the spring and summer." "Is that all ?" asked Lucilla.
I shut the book, and answered, like Finch's boy, in three monosyllabic words: "That is all.".


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