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Erema

CHAPTER XXIV
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However, I had thought enough to make no noise immediate, nor tell the other foolish girls, who would have set up bellowing.

Having years to deal with little ones brings knowledge of the rest to us.

I think that I must have gone to master's door, where Susan's orders were to put his shaving water in a tin, and fetched him out, with no disturbance, only in his dressing-gown.

And when I told him what it was, his rosy color turned like sheets, and he just said, 'Hush!' and nothing more.

And guessing what he meant, I ran and put my things on properly.
"But having time to think, the shock began to work upon me, and I was fit for nothing when I saw the children smiling up with their tongues out for their bread and milk, as they used to begin the day with.


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