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Updated: May 27, 2025

"Dat funnelly dinner will keep my ladyship an hour at the very latest bit. It will be eight o'clock afore she comes back, Laws-a- massy, what shall I do?" grunted the old woman impatiently. Slowly, slowly, passed that hour of waiting. The clock struck eight. "She'll be here every minute now," said old Katie, with a sigh of relief. But minute after minute passed and Claudia did not come.

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Self-Raised : Or, From the Depths