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Mary Erskine

CHAPTER IV
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She knew them all by name.
She imagined that they all knew her, and were glad to see her by the light of her lantern in the morning.

It gave her the utmost satisfaction to see them rise, one after another, from their straw, and begin eagerly to eat the hay which Albert pitched down to them from the scaffold, while she, standing below upon the barn floor, held the lantern so that he could see.

She was always very careful to hold it so that the cows and the oxen could see too.
One day, when Albert came home from the village, he told Mary Erskine that he had an offer of a loan of two hundred dollars, from Mr.Keep.
Mr.Keep was an elderly gentleman of the village,--of a mild and gentle expression of countenance, and white hair.

He was a man of large property, and often had money to lend at interest.

He had an office, where he used to do his business.


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