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The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER I
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I don't say as it's everybody as ought to take the lowest place.

The Lord knows I'm not proud, but I won't go into them chairs down by the font myself; but to see them Harrises, that to my certain knowledge hasn't a bite of butcher's meat in their heads but onst a week, a-settin' theirselves up--" "Now, Mrs.Eccles, you know perfectly well all the seats are free in the evening." "And so they may be, Miss Ruth, my dear--and don't ye be a-getting up yet--and good Christians, I'm sure, the quality are to abide it.

And it did my heart good to hear the Honorable John preaching as he did in his new surplice (as Widder Pegg always puts too much blue in the surplices to my thinking), all about rich and poor, and one with another.

A beautiful sermon it was; but I wouldn't come up like they Harrises.
There's things as is suitable, and there's things as is not.

No, I keep to my own place; and I had to turn out old Bessie Pugh this very last Sunday night, as I found a-cocked up there, tho' I was not a matter of five minutes late.


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