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Updated: May 26, 2025
My son James here tells me you've been's good as a son to him." "I'd love it," said Dickie. So that was settled. There were two bedrooms for Beale and his father, and Dickie slept in a narrow, whitewashed slip of a room that had once been a larder. The brown spaniel and True slept on the rag hearth-rug in the kitchen. And everything was as cozy as cozy could be.
"Of what does that remind you, Been?" "I know," said the poor girl; "I remember what I learnt at school;" and then in her broken English, she repeated the words: "As a hen gaderet her chickens under her wings, so would I have gaderd de, but dou wouldest not." At this moment, Been's husband came in.
The "might have been's" and the "perhaps may yet be's" are the greatest disturbers of our peace.
Soon afterwards, her father, who cared not for her, sold her to a Chinaman to be his wife, for forty dollars. Miss Grant heard her sad fate, and often longed to see her, but did not know where to find her. One evening, as she was paying visits in her palanquin, she saw a pair of bright black eyes looking through a hedge, and she felt sure that they were her own Been's.
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