with my eyes closed, among the scenes of the day. At length, by slow degrees, they became indistinct and mingled. I began to lose the identity of the sleeper resting on me. Now it was Ada,
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‟ ‟ detest it. It’s a beast!” I told her she was tired, and I was sorry. I put my hand upon her head, and touched her forehead, and said it was hot now but would be
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‟You’re speaking now. You know you are. Don’t tell stories, Miss Summerson.” My dear,” said I, as long as you won’t hear me out—” ‟ ‟
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Jellyby among her papers drinking coffee and Miss Jellyby biting the feather of her pen. What a strange house!” said Ada when we got upstairs. How curious ‟ ‟
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No, she had never seen him. Young as she was when her mama died, she remembered how the tears would come into her eyes when she
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natives to turn piano-fortenatives to turn piano-forte by saying, I believe now, Mrs. Jellyby, you ‟ have received as many as from one hundred and fifty to two hundred
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seen in pattens, who I suppose to have been the cook, frequently came and skirmished with her at the door, and there appeared to be ill will between them.
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But all the little children had come up to the landing outside to look at the phenomenon of Peepy lying on my bed, and our attention was distracted by the constant apparition of noses and
However, as she at once proceeded with her dictation, and as I interrupted nothing by doing it, I ventured quietly to stop poor Peepy as
had been loosely muffled dropped onto her chair when she advanced to us; and as she turned to resume her seat, we could
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