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Uncle Silas

CHAPTER IV
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I put her next the clock-room--she'll hear the hours betimes, I'm thinking.

You never saw such a sight.

The great long nose and hollow cheeks of her, and oogh! such a mouth! I felt a'most like little Red Riding-Hood--I did, Miss.' Here honest Mary Quince, who enjoyed Mrs.Rusk's satire, a weapon in which she was not herself strong, laughed outright.
'Turn down the bed, Mary.

She's very agreeable--she is, just now--all new-comers is; but she did not get many compliments from me, Miss--no, I rayther think not.

I wonder why honest English girls won't answer the gentry for governesses, instead of them gaping, scheming, wicked furriners?
Lord forgi' me, I think they're all alike.' Next morning I made acquaintance with Madame de la Rougierre.


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