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The Moorland Cottage

CHAPTER XI
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She asked your father to take us cabin places unknown to me." "Did she?
dear Erminia! it is just like her.

I could almost laugh to remember the eagerness with which I doffed my signs of wealth, and put on those of poverty.

I sold my watch when I got into Liverpool--yesterday, I believe--but it seems like months ago.

And I rigged myself out at a slop-shop with suitable clothes for a steerage passenger.

Maggie! you never told me the name of the vessel you were going to sail in!" "I did not know it till I got to Liverpool.


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