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The Queen of Hearts

CHAPTER II
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We've got (saving your presence) a foot apiece in our graves, haven't we?
When you was young yourself, sir, what would you have done if they had shut you up for six weeks in such a place as this, among your grandfathers and grandmothers, with their feet in the grave ?" "I really can't say." "I can, sir.

You'd have run away.

_She'll_ run away.

Don't you worry your head about her--she'll save you the trouble.

I tell you again, she'll run away." With those ominous words the housekeeper took up her basket, sighed heavily, and left me.
I sat down under a tree quite helpless.


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