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And Mrs Harris, Mr Chuzzlewit, has knowed me many year, and can give you information that the lady which is widdered can't do better and may do worse, than let me wait upon her, which I hope to do. Permittin' the sweet faces as I see afore me. 'Oh! said Mr Chuzzlewit. 'Is that your business? Was this good person paid for the trouble we gave her?
That was the time Mis' Scattergood was widdered an' come over here from Middletown to live with 'Rill. "I declare for't! 'Rill warn't sech an old maid then. She was right purty, if she had been teachin' school some time. Th' young men use ter buzz around her in them days. "But when she broke off with Hopewell, she broke off with all. Hopewell was spleeny about it ya-as, indeed, he was.
But, if you'll excuse the liberty, mem, as it's between ourselves, servant or no servant, all I have to say is, it's a cruel thing, parting that poor, pretty, young widdered cre'tur' from her own flesh and blood, and him such a little beauty and a nobleman born.
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