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The motionless person on the copper was, equally with Manston, quite unconscious of her proximity, and she ventured to advance her hand again, feeling behind the feet, till she found the key. On its return to her side, her finger-tip skimmed the lower verge of a trousers-leg. It was a man, then, who stood there.
But being there, and learning that Abraham Lincoln from the West was going to make an address, he went to hear him. He tells how uncouthly Lincoln was dressed, even with one trousers-leg higher than the other, and of how awkward he was, and of how poorly, at first, he spoke and with what apparent embarrassment.
Then the foreman took a match out of his pocket, and he scratched the match on his trousers-leg, and he lighted the pile of rubbish. And a little thin column of smoke went up, and then it blazed, and then it crackled, and the foreman and David went back for another load. The foreman and David worked for a long time, getting loads of rubbish, and dragging them over to the fire.
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