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Another little girl had also reached home, but she did not bang the door. She entered her mother's shop to encounter the flushed and much-perturbed face of her parent. "Well, Susy," said Mrs. Hopkins, "I wouldn't have thought it of you." "Why, what is it, mother?" "There's nineteen-and-sixpence taken out of the till," said Mrs. Hopkins.
Why was everything so frightfully still? I opened the door as slowly and fearfully as if I had dreaded arousing a sufferer whose life depended on his repose. There he lay on his bed, in his clothes fast asleep, as I thought, for he often slept so, and at any hour of the day the natural relief of his much-perturbed mind. His eyes were closed, and his face was very white.
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