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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE FIFTH
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Candlelight View of the Man THERE had been barely light enough left for me to read by.

Zillah lit the candles and drew the curtains.

The silence which betokens a profound disappointment reigned in the room.
"Who can he be ?" repeated Lucilla, for the hundredth time.

"And why should your looking at him have distressed him?
Guess, Madame Pratolungo!" The last sentence in the gazetteer's description of Exeter hung a little on my mind--in consequence of there being one word in it which I did not quite understand--the word "Assizes." I have, I hope, shown that I possess a competent knowledge of the English language, by this time.

But my experience fails a little on the side of phrases consecrated to the use of the law.


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