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She even rejected Bessie's caresses and little attempts at petting. "Don't, Bessie. I must go on with my work; I wish you would leave me alone," she would say pettishly. Bessie did leave her alone, but it made her heart ache to see the lines under Hatty's eyes, that showed she had cried herself to sleep. She knew it was unhappiness and not temper that was the cause of her irritability.
Then Colonel Keith and I carried in the basket, and Angus brought it out. Ephraim came to us after we left the prison, and brought me back here." "Ephraim Hebblethwaite helped you to do that?" I did not understand Hatty's tone. She was astonished, undoubtedly so, but she was something else too, and what that was I could not tell. My Aunt Kezia listened silently. "Why, Cary, you are a heroine!
She and Bessie had their ideals, their simple secrets, their crude girlish notions, that were nevertheless very true and sweet. Bessie could make allowances for Hatty's sharp speeches as she watched her daily struggles with her faulty temper.
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