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Six to Sixteen

CHAPTER III
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I heard her.

And I shall say so of you, too, as I've taken you up.

You're a sweet little puss.

And of course you're childish, because you're a child," adds Miss Matilda, with an air.

For had not she begun to write her own age with two figures?
Had I known then as much as I learned afterwards of what it meant to be "taken up" by Mrs.Minchin, I might not have thought the comparison a good omen for my friendship with Matilda.


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