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"'She didn't answer Mrs. Shutters, I do suppose, says she. 'I don't know. Don't be talkin'; your aunt can't abide a talkin' child. "'And please, ma'am, is the old lady well in health? says I. "'It ain't no harm to ask that, says she. 'She's torflin a bit lately, but better this week past, and I dare say she'll last out her hundred years yet. Hish! Here's your aunt coming down the passage.
She pined, and windered, and went off, torflin', torflin', quiet enough, till a day or two before her flittin', and then she took to rabblin', and sometimes skirlin' in the bed, ye'd think a robber had a knife to her throat, and she used to work out o' the bed, and not being strong enough, then, to walk or stand, she'd fall on the flure, wi' her ald wizened hands stretched before her face, and skirlin' still for mercy.
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