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But at this moment Toots appeared, a girl of fifteen, tall, shy and blushing, and was introduced as "my daughter Gertrude." She confessed, on interrogation, that she had dropped Sibbes's "Soul's Conflict" out of the window, and was on her way to pick it up. "Why didn't you drop it down the well?" asked her sister. "It is so dry, I am sure a wetting would do it good!"
"When Mary came to tell me of our visitors' arrival I was just putting away Sibbes's 'Soul's Conflict, and various other dreadful persons whom you would not let me burn; so I dumped them in Toots's arms, and ran off and left her. Being a ''bedient old soul, she is probably standing just where I left her. I will go "
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