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Updated: June 27, 2025
I came and looked at Nora's papers in the schoolroom drawer. I saw that." She pointed penitentially to a sheet of figures lying on the study table. Both Nora and her uncle looked up in amazement, staring at her. "It was at night," she said hurriedly "last night. Oh, I put it all back!" she turned, pleading, to Nora "just as I found it. You shouldn't be angry with me you shouldn't indeed!"
So that when she awoke Saturday, refreshed, and glanced blinking about from her thin pillow she did not at first remember where she was. This low room, four by seven feet, with a narrow bed penitentially hard, a stationary wash-basin, a row of iron clothes-hooks, a foot-high oblong window above her head what was it? How had she come here? And had any one ever before lived in such a cell?
They came, humbly and penitentially demanding pardon for their unconscious aggression of the squire's carriage, and entreating their captain's instant advice.
The poor lady was afflicted so keenly that, in instances where one of her sex and position in the social scale is bound to perish rather than let even the shadow of a laugh appear, or any sign of fleshly perception or sympathy peep out, she was seen to be mutely, shockingly, penitentially convulsed: a degrading sight.
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