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Various others were brought up and examined before poor Carry's turn had come; and on each occasion, as one after another was dismissed from the hands of the burly barrister, here one crushed and confounded, there another loud and triumphant, her heart was almost in her throat.
They entered the bedroom together. Carry's eye instantly caught sight of the trunk. "Are you dowin' away adain, Mamma?" she said with a quick nervous look, and a clutch at the woman's dress. "No-o," said Mrs. Tretherick, looking out of the window. "Only playing your dowin' away," suggested Carry with a laugh. "Let me play too." Mrs. Tretherick assented.
'She's throwed up the sperrits, and she is feeling better, and she's more to 'ee than a child that isn't yours. 'She isn't! She's not so particular much to me, especially now she's lost the little maid! But Carry's everything! 'Well, ver' like you'll find her to-morrow. 'Ah but shall I? Yet he can't hurt her surely he can't! Well how's Car'line now? I am ready. Is the cart here?
"There," said she, "put that in your purse, and don't tell me you have not been warned, Gertrude White." The elder sister did as she was bid; but indeed she was not thinking at that moment of the cruel and revengeful character of the Western Highlanders, which Miss Carry's quotation set forth in such plain terms.
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