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The English Orphans

CHAPTER III
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She says they've got a big looking-glass that cost three hundred dollars." "So I've heard, and I s'pose there'll be great doin's this afternoon.
The coffin, they say, came from Worcester, and cost fifty dollars." "Now, that's what I call wicked.

Sposin' her money did come from England, she needn't spend it so foolishly; but then money didn't save Ella's life, and they say her mother's done nothing but screech and go on like a mad woman since she died.

You'll go early, won't you ?" "Yes, I mean to be there in season to get into the parlor if I can." And now, having reached the corner, where their path diverged, with a mutual "good day" they parted..


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