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Terry

CHAPTER IV
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Suited me nicely, they did.

And now I may sit down and wait till Madam's eyes require another new pair." "But can't we write for some for you, Nursey, as Granny did ?" "Well, now! Just as if they had my name and my number in Dublin, same as your gran'mama's, an' her a great lady! Sure, poor people do have to walk into a shop, and just try and try till they get a pair to fit them." Terry sat on the old woman's knee, and threw her arms round her neck.
"I'll darn the stockings, and sew on the strings and buttons, and read your prayer-book to you, and read the newspaper to you after Grandma has done with it.

Is there anything else I can do for you, Nursey darling ?" "Nothing in the world, except try to be good an' keep out of mischief, Miss Terry." "But I do so want to be good always, Nancy.

And I never would be in mischief if I knew it was mischief.

It looks so right while I'm doing it, and I don't know how it can be that all of a sudden it goes wrong--" "Not all of a suddent, Miss Terry.


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