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CHAPTER II
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She was first to break the silence.
"What do you want ?" she asked curtly.
The master had decided on a course of action.

"I want some crab apples," he said humbly.
"Sha'n't have 'em! go away.

Why don't you get 'em of Clytemnerestera ?" (It seemed to be a relief to Mliss to express her contempt in additional syllables to that classical young woman's already long-drawn title.) "O you wicked thing!" "I am hungry, Lissy.

I have eaten nothing since dinner yesterday.

I am famished!" and the young man in a state of remarkable exhaustion leaned against the tree.
Melissa's heart was touched.


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