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'And I hope I should have improved, being very anxious to learn, and he very patient to teach me, if the great misfortune of his death' my mother broke down again here, and could get no farther. 'Well, well! said Miss Betsey. 'I kept my housekeeping-book regularly, and balanced it with Mr. Copperfield every night, cried my mother in another burst of distress, and breaking down again.
Every week we kept an account of the milk and butter we consumed, and entered it in our housekeeping-book at the price we should have paid for it, supposing we had purchased the articles.
No lock can prevent that, my child, because none can shelter you from the results of your own miscalculations. There is no safeguard for the woman at the head of a household, like a housekeeping-book which serves to warn her day by day, and bears faithful witness at the end of the month. I have brought you such a one as your uncle used to give me."
We heard her scream, and, rushing up, there was poor Letty, sitting at the old bureau, quite dead. She had fallen forward on the desk, and her housekeeping-book was crumpled up under her. She had been so all night long, we suppose, for she was not undressed, and was quite cold. The doctors say it was disease of the heart. "There!" said Uncle Cornie, folding up the letter.
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