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Besides when I was earning five shillings a week, I could buy father a new coat, couldn't I? And then there would be no need for him to stand in the Lane with lemons or 'four-corner fringes, would there?" "No, dear. You shall be a teacher, I prophesy, and who knows? Some day you may be Head Mistress!" Esther laughed a startled little laugh of delight, with a suspicion of a sob in it. "What! Me!
There, in the midst of the hollow, stood, grim and desolate, the dark brick-built Cradle, casting its shadow to the south; the four-corner prominences shooting out like horns, and so unlike the habitation of a human being, yea, unlike any composition of brick and lime ever reared by the hand of a genius for house-making.
'You wear no four-corner fringes! she exclaimed tragically. 'She neglects even to see to that. Ah, it will be a good deed to carry you from this godless home. 'But I don't want to go with you, he said sullenly, reminded of past inquisitorial worryings about prayers. 'You little fool! said Becky. 'You are going and in that cab. 'In that cab? he cried joyfully. 'Yes, my apple.
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