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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXI
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"I suppose you consider me nobody at all.

But I must get my water." "You shall not carry water.

You are much too pretty.

I will carry it for you." Pet was not "introspective;" otherwise he must have been astonished at himself.

His mother and aunt would have doubted their own eyes if they had beheld this most dainty of the dainty, and mischievous of the mischievous (with pain and passion for the moment vanquished), carefully carrying an old brown pitcher.


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