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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Please, ma'am," said Clare, "will you give us a piece of bread? as large a piece, please, as you can spare; and I will give you this piece of brown Windsor-soap." As he ended his speech, he took a farewell whiff of his favourite detergent. "Soap!" retorted the dame. "Who wants your soap! Where did you get it? Stole it, I don't doubt! Show it here."
The very day she was taken ill, he had been in the store-room with his mother, and she, knowing the pleasure he took in the scent of brown Windsor-soap, had made him a present of a small cake. This he had kept in his pocket ever since, wrapt in a piece of rose-coloured paper, his one cherished possession: hunger deadening sorrow, the time was come to bid it farewell.
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