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Hetty Wesley

CHAPTER VIII
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The fire there was more moderate.

I bade them all follow, but found only two with me, and the maid with another in her arms that cannot go; but all naked.

I ran with them to an outhouse in the garden, out of the reach of the flames; put the least in the other's lap; and not finding my wife follow me, ran back into the house to seek her, but could not find her.

The servants and two of the children were got out at the window.

In the kitchen I found my eldest daughter, naked, and asked her for her mother.
She could not tell me where she was.


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