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pao-yu at these words turned himself round and betook himself immediately into his grandmother's apartments where he did all that lay in his power to urge her to depute servants to go and fetch her

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we will notice however that old goody liu took pan erh along with her and came first and paid a visit to lady feng

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but to resume our story after hearing his mother's arguments hseh p'an's indignation gradually abated but notwithstanding that his pains and aches completely disappeared in three or five days time

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and stealthily says one thing and another simply because they see how fond our worthy ancestor is of both pao y and lady feng and how much more won't they do these things with me

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he must be mulcted the first one could anyhow be overlooked but this line is more unintelligible as they said this they were about to pour the wine when pao-yu smilingly interfered the rhyme is all right he observed

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if we buy one we won't know what she's really like pao chai demurred if she gives us the slip the money we may have spent on her will be a mere trifle so long as she hasn't been up to any pranks

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for as it is absolutely necessary that there should be a disorderly emperor before they can afford any admonition to what future fate do they thus expose their sovereign if they rashly throw away their lives

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judging he reflected from this behaviour of hers it would seem as if it could not be for what transpired yesterday yesterday too i came back late in evening and what's more i didn't see her so that there was no occasion on which i could have given her offence

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be careful how you ride that horse hasn't been ridden very much so hold him in tight a bit as he urged him to be careful they reached the interior of the city walls

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but even those beautiful girls in the female apartments have been so contaminated by this practice that verily they show themselves ungrateful for the virtue of heaven and earth in endowing them with perception

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as she was recounting this incident well she overheard pao chai sarcastically observe from the opposite direction have you done spinning your yarns if you have come along it's quite evident that you are brother and sister for here you leave everyone else and go and discuss your own private matters

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here you've been at this early hour of the morning standing for ever so long in this damp place so you should go back and have some rest this single hint recalled tai y to her senses she at length realised that the legs felt rather tired

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or will you perchance ask for some from in here this long tirade had the effect of bringing the true facts of the case to hsiang yns notice and she began to waver in a state of uncertainty

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i'd avail myself of the present when all you girls are alive to pass away and could i get you to shed such profuse tears for me as to swell out

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those that were to be invited were invited and those that had to be sent for were sent for and before the lapse of such time as could suffice to have a meal in the old as well as young

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for with just a trifle of inattention the railings will slant the pillars will be topsy-turvy doors and windows will recline in a horizontal position

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we are all both high or low fond of such things this will be quite enough we don't want anything else so don't go to any useless trouble goody liu gave utterance to profuse expressions of gratitude and signified her readiness to comply with her wishes

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you've got from one year's end to another she smiled the trouble and annoyance of conferring dutiful attentions upon our venerable senior upon madame wang and upon myself so as i've nothing today with which to prove my affection for you

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those two tai yu observed can't get together the moment they meet how much trouble doesn't arise they must surely have now gone to hatch their plans over that haunch of venison

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tai-yu then directed someone to take down the frame and suspend it instead on a hook outside the circular window and presently entering her room she seated herself inside the circular window

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this is no regular fasting she said we simply have come for a little change and we should not have put any one to any inconvenience

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could he have had any inclination to be present at the plays hence it was that he refused to go on the pretext of indisposition lin tai-yu had got a couple of days back

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just you go to sleep p'ing erh urged and i'll get the things ready for you and put them in here as soon as the day breaks tomorrow i'll send the servant lads to hire a cart and pack them in don't you therefore worry yourself in the least on that score

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but as pao-yu had so hurt tai-yu's feelings the two cousins saw nothing whatever of each other and conscience-stricken despondent and unhappy as he was at this time

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it really looked as if you were disposed to beg donation of us this observation sent the whole company into a violent fit of laughter even georgen could not suppress a smile

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we will now resume our story by adding that on the return of the young ladies into the garden they had their meal this over they parted company and nothing more need be said about them

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on her arrival at widow li's quarters she in point of fact discovered lady feng seated inside with her having a chat hsiao hung approached her and made her report

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and that if she did not frown her eyebrows she anyway heaved deep sighs but they were quite at a loss to divine why she was with no rhyme or reason ever so ready to indulge to herself in inexhaustible gushes of tears

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the sight of their old mistress delight filled the waiting maids and married women with high glee as well and each hurried with vehemence to execute her respective errand

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ch'un at her remark laughed with such heartiness that it was all she could do to check herself cousin pao she observed don't you wring her mouth just ask her what disparaging things she said about you why need i ask pao chai smiled

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but you must carefully consider that when my mother died i hadn't even any sisters or brothers and that up to this my fifteenth year there has never been a single person to admonish me as you did the other day

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while still speaking she started on her way to dowager lady chia's suite of rooms after first paying her respects to her she made a few general remarks and then betook herself into yan yang's quarters where she held a consultation with yan yang

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i'm somewhat distrustful mrs yu laughed so i'd like to check it in your presence these words over she verily checked sum after sum

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she maintained that people who gathered together must soon part that when they came together they were full of rejoicing but did they not feel lonely when they broke up

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an estimable and refined girl manages after great exertion to compose verses at a refined meeting

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the young ladies don't like anyone to come in here for fear lest their quarters should get contaminated so don't let us show ourselves disregardful of their wishes the right thing would be to go and have our wine aboard one of those boats

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look at this handkerchief she overheard if it's really the one you've lost well then keep it but if it isn't you must return it to mr yun

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tai yu did not even so much as look at him straight in the face but egressing alone out of the door of the court she proceeded there and then in search of the other girls pao-yu fell into a despondent mood and gave way to conjectures

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he could therefore only put on a smiling expression and add i'll give you another one instead hsi jen was prompted by his rejoinder to nod her head and sigh

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but unconsciously a stream of tears rolled down their cheeks they could not it is true get a glimpse of each other yet as the one was in the hsiao hsiang lodge

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and to gratify to some small degree a particle of his wish this had been a piece of good fortune he so little expected would fall to his share during the course of his present existence that as he reclined on his bed his heart swelled with happiness and contentment

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after listening to her suggestion madame hsing began again to feel in a happier frame of mind my idea is she observed that i shouldn't start by mentioning anything to our venerable senior

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and was inwardly feeling in low spirits he became aware that pao chai t'an ch'un and the other girls had also arrived after a short chat with dowager lady chia pao chai likewise entered the apartments to find out what her cousin lin was up to

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but were they now to open and see me here won't they feel ashamed moreover the voice in which those remarks were uttered resembles very much that of hung erh attached to pao yu's rooms who has all along shown a sharp eye and a shrewd mind

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whether willing or not interposed hsiao hung smiling such as we couldn't really presume to raise our voices and object we should feel it our privilege to serve such a one as your ladyship

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the only thing that damped his spirits was the notion that there was a certain want of reverence in his proceedings but on second consideration he concluded that what he had about him was after all considerably superior to any he could purchase

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but then again we could find none decent enough for if her looks were not at fault her disposition was not proper and if she had possessed this quality she lacked that one

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a happy man enjoys a full measure of happiness but still prays for happiness a beloved girl is very much loved but yet craves for more love

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she herself nevertheless felt too listless to join the banquet so simply reclining on a sofa of the inner room she looked at the plays in company with mrs hseh and choosing several kinds of such eatables as were to her taste

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psha ch'ing wen ejaculated with a significant smile you are indeed a mean thing who has seen nothing of the world she gave the good ones to others and the refuse to you and do you still pat on all this side

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and her eyes also so pure she may it is to be feared have come across some spirit or other i can't help thinking therefore that you should consult some book of exorcisms on her behalf for mind she may have run up against some evil influence

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by the lantern i weep as if i sat with some one who must go the small courtyard full of bleak mist is now become quite desolate

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madame wang laughed and pointed at lady feng with her finger but as for saying a word she could not missus hseh had much difficulty in curbing her mirth and she sputtered the tea with which her mouth was full all over t'an ch'un's petticoat

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during this while dowager lady chia and the other inmates devoted more of their time in visiting the various places but just as they were on the point of going up the two-storied building they heard chia chen shout

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and drooping catkins lightly strike and cling on the embroidered screens a maiden in the inner rooms i sore deplore the close of spring such ceaseless sorrow fills my breast that solace nowhere can i find

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and that heaven does not in the creation of human beings bestow on them natural gifts to no purpose we've been sighing and lamenting that it was a pity that such a one as she should really be so unpolished

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that my husband will also treat you as well as he does everyone else and that when in the course of a year or so you give birth to a son or daughter you'll be placed on the same footing as myself and of all the servants at home

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they already bear me considerable dislike so much so that i'm still quite at a loss whether i should stay or go and why should i make them heap execrations upon me well in that case pao chai observed i'm too in the same plight as yourself

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but when he now heard the remarks passed by hsiang yun and the rejoinders made on the other hand by pao chai and when he noticed how different tai yu's voice and manner were from former occasions and how they actually bore out pao chai's insinuation

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but go with my father mother or brother i won't i'll either commit suicide or cut my hair off and go and become a nun if you fancy that i'm not in earnest and that i'm temporarily using this language to put you off

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but you four will positively have to do so if you agree to this well we can proceed with the society but if you don't fall in with my wishes i can't presume to join you

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if you come along with us you know that my disposition too is gentle that i'm not one of those persons who don't show any regard for anyone

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lady feng was well aware that yan yang and the other attendants were at the back and could not overtake their old mistress so she herself alighted from her chair to volunteer her services

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christ is coming little children christ is coming coming through the flaming sky to convey his trusting children to their glorious home on high do you love the lord's appearing are you waiting for the day when with all his shining angels he will come in grand array

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all who keep the ten commandments will rejoice his face to see but the wicked filled with anguish from his presence then will flee now while yet probation lingers now while mercy's voice is heard haste to give your heart to jesus seek to understand his word

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the villages canandaigua new york a beautiful village the county seat of ontario county situated at the foot of canandaigua lake which is called the gem of the inland lakes of western new york about three hundred and twenty-five miles from new york city

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i made the pocket for my dress after i got home from school and then grandfather said he would take us out to ride so he took us way up to thaddeus chapin's on the hill julia phelps was there playing with laura chapin for she is her cousin henry and ann eliza field came over to call this evening

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she said i was mistaken about remembering it for he died before i was a year old but i had heard it told so many times i thought i remembered it probably that is the way it was but i know it happened

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if it had been left at some people's houses it would not have been sent away grandmother says they heard that the baby was adopted afterwards by some nice people in geneva people must think this is a nice place for children for they had eleven of their own before we came

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she sent a carriage for chloe and she came and had a nice dinner not in the kitchen either grandmother asked her if there was any one else she would like to see before she went home and she said yes miss rebekah gorham so she told the coachman to take her down there and wait for her to make a call and then take her home and he did

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thursday father and uncle edward richards came to see us yesterday and took us down to mr corson's store and told us we could have anything we wanted so we asked for several kinds of candy stick candy and lemon drops and bulls eyes and then they got us two rubber balls and two jumping ropes with handles and two hoops and sticks to roll them with

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we wanted to pull some long stockings over our shoes and go too but grandmother did not think it was best she gave us the dairyman's daughter and jane the young cottager by leigh richmond to read

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november twenty-second i wrote a composition today and the subject was which of the seasons is the pleasantest anna asked grandmother what she should write about and grandmother said she thought a contented mind would be a very good subject but anna said she never had one and didn't know what it meant so she didn't try to write any at all

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sunday rev m l r p thompson preached today he used to be the minister of our church before mr daggett came some people call him rev alphabet thompson because he has so many letters in his name

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may twenty sixth there was an eclipse of the sun today and we were very much excited looking at it general granger came over and gave us some pieces of smoked glass

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i tried to comfort her and told her it might never happen so she stopped crying november twenty-fourth three ladies visited our school today miss phelps miss daniels and mrs clark we had calisthenics and they liked them

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she's on her way to school one morning and she saw an indian coming and was so afraid but did not dare run for fear he would chase her so she thought of the word sago which means good morning and when she got up close to him she dropped a curtsy and said sago and he just went right along and never touched her at all

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he preached a very good sermon from the text dearly beloved as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men i like to hear him preach but not as well as i do mr daggett i suppose i am more used to him

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i don't see how they happened to be so awfully good anna says they died of early piety but she did not say it very loud grandmother said she would give me ten cents if i would learn the verses in the new england primer

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sunday mr tousley preached to-day mr lamb is superintendent of the sunday school mr chipman used to be miss mollie bull played the melodeon mr fairchild is my teacher when he is there he was not there to-day and miss mary howell taught our class i wish i could be as good and pretty as she is

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miss clark wanted us to write compositions about it so anna wrote about eleven o'clock we went out to see if it had come yet but it hadn't come yet so we waited awhile and then looked again and it had come and there was a piece of it cut out of it miss clark said it was a very good description and she knew anna wrote it all herself

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thursday edward everett of boston lectured in our church this evening they had a platform built even with the tops of the pews so he did not have to go up into the pulpit

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i handed in a composition too about the eclipse but i don't think miss clark like it as well as she did anna's because it had something in it about the beggarly elements of the world

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that john rogers left for his wife and nine small children and one at the breast when he was burned at the stake at smithfield england in fifteen fifty-five one verse is i leave you here a little book for you to look upon that you may see your father's face when he is dead and gone it is a very long piece but i got it

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we go to church morning and afternoon and to sunday school and learn seven verses every week and recite catechism and hymns to grandmother in the evening grandmother knows all the questions by heart so she lets the book lie in her lap and she asks them with her eyes shut she likes to hear us sing

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she asked me where i got it and i told her that it was in a nice storybook that grandmother gave me to read entitled elizabeth thornton of the fruit and flower of female piety and other sketches by samuel irenaeus prime

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grandmother says the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church anna learned in adam's fall we sinned all my book and heart shall never part the cat doth play and after slay the dog doth bite a thief at night

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tis religion that can give sweetest pleasure while we live tis religion can supply solid comfort when we die december one

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the pennies especially seemed to attract them and we noticed the same ones several times aunt mary carr made lovely new year cakes with a pretty flower stamped on before they were baked

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i think grandmother will laugh out loud for once when she sees it but i don't think anna will wear it to school or anywhere else she wouldn't want to if she knew how terrible it looked i threaded a dozen needles on a spool of thread for grandmother before i went to school so that she could slip them along and use them as she needed them she says it is a great help

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crowds and crowds came to hear him from all over everywhere grandmother let me go they say he is the most eloquent speaker in the u s but i have heard mr daggett when i thought he was just as good

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grandfather asked me to read president pierce's message aloud to him this evening i thought it was very long and dry but he said it was interesting and that i read it very well i am glad he liked it part of it was about the missouri compromise i didn't even know what it meant

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february four eighteen fifty-four we heard today of the death of our little half sister julia dey richards in penn yan yesterday and i felt so sorry i couldn't sleep last night so i made up some verses about her and this morning wrote them down and gave them to grandfather

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sunday we went to church today and heard rev mr stowe preach his text was the poor ye have with you always and whensoever ye will ye may do them good

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this was one of the other sketches it commenced by telling how the moon came between the sun and the earth and then went on about the beggarly elements miss clark asked me if i knew what they meant and i told her no but i thought they sounded good she just smiled and never scolded me at all i suppose next time i must make it all up myself

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grandmother says i will have a great deal to answer for because anna looks up to me so and tries to do everything that i do and thinks whatever i say is gospel truth the other day the girls at school were disputing with her about something and she said it is so if it ain't so for calline said so

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when she came to the end of it and said zaccheus he did climb a tree his lord to see she said she heard someone say the tree broke down and let him fall and he did not see his lord at all grandmother said it was very wicked indeed and she hoped anna would try and forget it

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april one grandmother sent me up into the little chamber today to straighten things and get the room ready to be cleaned i found a little book called child's pilgrim progress illustrated

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it gave us a little change i read once that variety is the spice of life they sit around the table and each one has a candle and thomas reads aloud to the girls while they sew he and bridget are catholics but hannah is a member of our church

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saturday december ninth we took our music lessons today miss hattie heard is our teacher and she says we are getting along well anna practiced her lesson over sixty-five times this morning before breakfast and can play mary to the saviour's tomb as fast as a waltz

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