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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXVII
19/25

Run and tell your mother to come and see me .-- Oh, Mrs.Shanks, I am very glad to see you, and so blooming in spite of all your hard work.

Ah, it is no easy thing in these hard times to maintain a large family and keep the pot boiling.
And everything clean as a quarter-deck! My certy, you are a woman in a thousand!" "No, sir, no.

It is all the Lord's doing.

And you to the back of Him, as I alway say.

Not a penny can they make out as I owes justly, bad as I be at the figures, Squire.


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