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When the candle was lighted she saw that Mildred was very pale and shivering. "You're overtired, my girl," she said. "That's what's the matter with you." "Oh, Tims," moaned Mildred. "I feel so ill and so frightened. I know something horrid's going to happen I know it is." "Don't be a donkey," returned Tims. "I'll help you undress and then you turn in. You'll be as jolly as a sandboy to-morrow."
"No," he said, "why should it?" "Because I've noticed that, when people are unusually horrid, it always means that something horrid's happened to them." "Really?" "Papa, for instance, is only horrid to us because Mummy my stepmother, you know was horrid to him." "What did Mummy do to him?" "She ran away from him. It's always that way. People aren't horrid on purpose.
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