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Ruth

CHAPTER XIII
11/22

I can face it if I'm told out and out, but I cannot abide the way some folk has of denying there's trouble or pain to be met; just as if their saying there was none, would do away with it.

Some folk treats one like a babby, and I don't like it.

I'm not meaning _you_, Master Thurstan." "No, Sally, you need not say that.

I know well enough who you mean when you say 'some folk.' However, I admit I was wrong in speaking as if you minded trouble, for there never was a creature minded it less.
But I want you to like Mrs Denbigh," said Miss Benson.
"I dare say I should, if you'd let me alone.

I did na like her sitting down in master's chair.


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