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Wessex Tales

CHAPTER II
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I was ashamed that you should--'twas not what she was born to.

I untied the parcel in the road, took it on to her where she was waiting in the Lower Barn, and told her I had managed to get it for her, and that she was to ask no question.

She, poor thing, must have supposed I obtained it on trust, through having reached a place where I was known, for she put it on gladly enough.

She has it on now.

Sally has other gowns, I daresay.' Sally looked at her mother, speechless.
'You have others, I daresay!' repeated Phil, with a sick man's impatience.


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