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The Claverings

CHAPTER XII
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Her name was Patty Gubby.

Then Patty got up and had her head patted by her ladyship and received sixpence.

They neither of them, however, knew who her ladyship was, and, as far as Lady Ongar could ascertain without a question too direct to be asked, had never heard of her.

Enoch Gubby said he worked for Mr.Giles, the steward--that was for my lord, and as he was old and stiff with rheumatism he only got eight shillings a week.

He had a daughter, the mother of Patty, who worked in the fields, and got six shillings a week.
Everything about the poor Gubbys seemed to be very wretched and miserable.


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