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A Flat Iron for a Farthing

CHAPTER III
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It ain't for their happiness, nor for any one else's." "You are perfectly right, perfectly right," said my father, "and it shall not occur again.

Ah! my poor boy," he added in an irrepressible outburst, "you suffer for lack of a mother's care.

I do what I can, but a man cannot supply a woman's place to a child." Mrs.Bundle's feelings at this soliloquy may be imagined.

"You might have knocked me down with a feather, sir," she assured the butler (unlikely as it seemed!) in describing the scene afterwards.

She found strength, however, to reply to my father's remark.
"Indeed, sir, a mother's place never can be filled to a child by no one whatever.


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