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You won't, please, because papa asked me not. I told him that I should tell you." Then, for the first time, the frown passed away entirely from Miss Prettyman's face, and the papers and account books were pushed aside, as being of no moment. The news had been momentous enough to satisfy her. Mary continued her story almost in a whisper. "It was Mrs Arabin who sent the cheque to Mr Crawley.
Prettyman's face when she opened her door and found out what had happened. "She be sleepin' too long; I'll go and waken her in a minute," said Mrs. Darke. "'Tis but right she should be told what's come to 'er tree, poor thing."
Prettyman's room, and, flinging her arms round the old woman's neck, cry out to her that everything was settled. And instead she must come to the point gently, prudently, wisely, "like other people" as she said to herself. The cottage seemed very still that afternoon, and Robinette knocked twice before she heard the piping old voice cry out to her to come in. "Why, Nurse dear, where are you?
Anne knows that I've long wanted to have it done, and I'll tell her that you've kindly promised to do it for me." "No; no; no," said Grace; "I must go home." She was still kneeling at Miss Prettyman's knee, and still holding Miss Prettyman's hand.
Lavendar had not gone far when he found Carnaby, Carnaby intensely perturbed, walking up and down by himself. "You don't need to tell me!" said the boy, with a quick and agitated gesture of the hand. "Bates told me. Old Mrs. Prettyman's dead!"
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