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True Tilda

CHAPTER I
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Want to get me out of the way while they shift the beddin'.

Lemme get back my clothes, that's all, an' I'll teach him about pinin' for liberty." "But," said the doctor severely, lifting a finger, "you're to keep to the pavement mind--just outside, where it's nice and shady.

Only so far as the next turning and back; no crossing anywhere or getting in the way of traffic, and only for half an hour.

The chimes from St.Barnabas will tell you, if you can't read the clock." She had learnt to read the time before she was five years old, and had a mind to tell him, but checked herself and merely nodded her head.
"Half an hour, and the pavement only.

Is that understood ?" "Honest!" It annoyed her--when, an hour later, she began to dress for the adventure--to find herself weaker than she had at all supposed.
Although she forbore to mention it to the Second Nurse, there was an irresponsible funny feeling in her legs.


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