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A roll of some thing white and soft dropped at Harry Girdwood's feet, and he hastened to pick it up. Some thing white, we said. Well, it had once been white, but now it had got very considerably discoloured with age and dust, which seemed to indicate that it had been a long while up on the shelf in its hiding place. Yes, its hiding place.
I heard Hunston when I was awake." There was something strangely impressive in his manner as he said this, which caught Harry Girdwood's attention in spite of himself. "Fancy," he said, with an assumption of indifference which he was far from feeling; "fancy, my dear Jack." "Of course," answered young Jack; "but very strange."
Whereupon, I, knowing the outs and ins of the case, decerned that she should be fined five shillings to the poor of the parish, and ordained to go back to Mrs Girdwood's, and there stay out the term of her servitude, or failing by refusal so to do, to be sent to prison, and put to hard labour for the remainder of the term.
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