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Updated: May 11, 2025

Some other time," he began to say; then blushing scarlet, he seized her hand, and pressing it, said, fervently, "God bless you!" The second Mrs. Slimm is a wholesome little body, with dimples and freckles, whom Ezra declares "God A'mighty couldn't o' made without thinkin' of Ezra Slimm an' his precize necessities."

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