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Without respect to her age or gentle kin, my Lady Kittlebasket was ejected from her airy habitation her porridge-pot, silver posset-dish, silver-mounted spectacles, and Daniel's Cambridge Bible, sold, at the Cross of Edinburgh, to the caddie who would bid highest for them, and she herself driven to the workhouse, where she got in with difficulty, but was easily enough lifted out, at the end of the month, as dead as her friends could desire.
Never mind though, I will be upsides with him yet. 'Had not you once a tenement in the Covenant Close? again demanded Nanty. 'And do you not remember that you had a poor old lady for your tenant, Mrs. Cantrips of Kittlebasket? said Nanty, suppressing his emotion with difficulty. 'Remember!
I had taught Jess one trade, and, like a prudent girl, she had found out another for herself; unluckily, they were both contraband, and Jess Cantrips, daughter of the Lady Kittlebasket, had the honour to be transported to the plantations, for street-walking and pocket-picking, about six months before I touched shore.
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