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'Make haste and die, my good soul, says she, 'for, while you live, you'll be a hobelisk to reform. So she went off, but I made to the door, and called after her I should die when God pleased, and I had seen a good many young folk laid out, that looked as like to make old bones as ever she does chalk-faced skinny -to-a-d! And I called after her she was no lady.
"And nursed young squire, and, Lord bless your heart, a was a poor puny child when I took him to my breast, and in six months the finest, chubbiest boy in all the parish; and his dry-nurse for years arter, and always at his heels a-keeping him out of the stable and the ponds, and consorting with the village boys; and a proper resolute child he was, and hard to manage: and my own man that is gone, and my son 'that's not so clever as some,* I always done justice by them both, and arter all to be called a hobelisk oh! oh! oh!"
No more she ain't, to come into my own house and call a decent woman 'a hobelisk! Oh! oh! Which I never was, not even in my giddy days, but did work hard in my youth, and am respect for my old age." "Yes, nurse, yes; who doubts it?"
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