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After Dark

PREFACE TO "AFTER DARK
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The child came back all flushed with the pleasure of the visit, and quite helped to keep up her father's spirits with talking to him about it.

So much for the highly interesting history of the bead purse.
Toward the afternoon the light cart from the farmhouse came to fetch us and our things to Appletreewick.

It was quite a warm spring day, and I had another pang to bear as I saw poor William helped into the cart, looking so sickly and sad, with his miserable green shade, in the cheerful sunlight.

"God only knows, Leah, how this will succeed with us," he said, as we started; then sighed, and fell silent again.
Just outside the town the doctor met us.

"Good luck go with you!" he cried, swinging his stick in his usual hasty way; "I shall come and see you as soon as you are all settled at the farmhouse." "Good-by, sir," says Emily, struggling up with all her might among the bundles in the bottom of the cart; "good-by, and thank you again for the work-box and the sugar-plums." That was my child all over! she never wants telling.
The doctor kissed his hand, and gave another flourish with his stick.


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