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'I've heard the woodmen say, now that you tell o't, that they meet her every now and then, just at the closing in of the day, as they come home along with their nitches of sticks; ay, stalking about under the trees by herself a tall black martel, so long-legged and awful-like that you'd think 'twas the old feller himself a-coming, they say.
He liked to have her there, he said, "but, somehow, she was so white and pretty, she made him feel sort o' awful-like." Of course, as such poor mortals always do, he must, on this particular morning, blunder into precisely the wrong subject.
Only you've been very good to Peter, you see, miss, sending wine and such things when I was ill, and I ain't afeard o' you, as I am o' some folks. 'The wine was not mine, Peter. Be quick, please; tell me what you want to say. 'I can't come to it very easy, miss. It's something awful-like to tell on. 'Something awful?
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