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I was not surprised, therefore, when I found him rather dejectedly sunk in figures one afternoon about a week after Miss Caroline's "home-fixin's" had begun to arrive. These were all about him at the front door, in the hall, and extending far into the rooms, a truly depressing chaos of packing boxes, swathed tables, chairs, bureaus, and barrels of china.
"Yo' don't reckon they git a idy them funichas an' home-fixin's ain't been paid foh in th' fust place?" I took the packet from his hands and glanced over it. "No, these seem to be all right, Clem only freight is charged for. But you must remember Virginia is a long way off." "Yes, seh it ain't neveh raghtly come upon me befoh." "And freights are high, of course?"
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