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Still the old woman hesitated, and still she muttered to herself; but after some further prelude, and some further enticement from the curate, the which we spare our reader, she came at length to the following narration: "It was on the 7th of February, in the year '44, yes, '44, about six o'clock in the evening, for I was a-washing in the kitchen, when Mr.
Harry chuckled and grinned for a moment in his old foxy, peering way, and then wandered off again. 'What's that thumping and roaring? Alas! it was the failing pulsation of his own heart. 'It's the weir, the weir a-washing me away thundering over me. Squire, I'm drowning, drowning and choking! Oh, Lord, how deep!
Spizey, too, readily remembered the evening under discussion and said so, with a sniff which seemed to indicate decided disapproval of her memories respecting it. "What were you doing that evening, Mrs. Spizey?" asked Meeking. "Which for the most part of it, sir, I was a-washing of that very floor as you're a-standing on, sir, me being cleaner to the Moot Hall. That 'ud be from six to eight."
A little doubtful whether the stranger, who in her eyes was a very grand lady, was about to hear her say her catechism, the small child put her hands meekly together, and said "Molly, please." "Molly what?" pursued the stranger, with a smile. "Molly Fenton, please." "That will do. Where's mother?" "Please, she's a-washing at the back." "Is that she that singeth?"
But come, let us arise and go a-washing with the breaking of the day, and I will follow with thee to be thy mate in the toil, that without delay thou mayst get thee ready, since truly thou art not long to be a maiden. Lo, already they are wooing thee, the noblest youths of all the Phaeacians, among that people whence thou thyself dost draw thy lineage.
Still the old woman hesitated, and still she muttered to herself; but after some further prelude, and some further enticement from the curate, the which we spare our reader, she came at length to the following narration: "It was on the 7th of February, in the year '44, yes, '44, about six o'clock in the evening, for I was a-washing in the kitchen, when Mr.
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