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Updated: May 5, 2025

"As you please, professor. But I hope it has been well with you all these years?" "Come in, Mr. Worth, and sit down and I will tell you." The professor led the way into the humble dwelling. It was as neat as ever, with its sanded floor, flag-bottom chairs, and pine tables, all of the professor's manufacture, and its bright tinware and clean crockery ranged in order on its well scrubbed shelves.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Self-Raised : Or, From the Depths