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Erema

CHAPTER XXIV
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You be off!' he cried out to a boy who was calling some more round the corner.

'Now, young woman, we must come in if you please, and the least said the soonest mended.' "'Oh, but my mistress, my mistress!' I cried; 'and her time up, as nigh as may be, any day or night before new moon.

'Oh, Mr.Constable, Mr.
Rural Polishman, take it to the tool shed, if you ever had a wife, Sir.' Now even this was turned against us as if I had expected it.

They said that I must have known who it was, and to a certain length so I did, miss, but only by the dress and the manner of the corpse, and lying with an attitude there was no contradicting.
"I can not tell you now, my dear, exactly how things followed.

My mind was gone all hollow with the sudden shock upon it.


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