. I dare say you  soon.

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    So read, of course?

    I so read, miss? Sing. Pretty muc last. t is, I am sure I so be shown.

    Sared.

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    I  beginning to s. I opened it and looked at a page. It . I tried anot one  Mauds gaze, like a flame against my  face. I felt tter. take a c.

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    Sill ill smiling, tolling of t  times; and then her smile fell.

    No go to Mr Lilly; and wrikes one I shall be free again.

    S—sounding, I t, just like a girl in a story. Arent tories, s, and s? She said,

    Come to me, Susan, at my uncles c one.

    I will, miss, I said.

    S racted kind of  to it, and put o o c goed at the back and showed her calves.

    S my eye in tsey.

    Shall I go, miss? I said.

    Sepped back. Stay, s my rooms in order, will you?

    S to t topped. She said,

    I . I , in London,  miss you too greatly. It , I t