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" Oak glanced into the book, and replied instantly, with a flushed face, " Miss Everdene's." Oak had coloured simply at the consciousness of sounding her name. He now felt a strangely distressing qualm from a new thought." The letter could of course be no other than anonymous, or the inquiry would not have been necessary.
"Mis-terr Bold-wood! He gave it to me for opening the gate." "What did he say?" "He said, 'Where are you going, my little man? and I said, 'To Miss Everdene's please, and he said, 'She is a staid woman, isn't she, my little man? and I said, 'Yes." "You naughty child! What did you say that for?" "'Cause he gave me the penny!"
"And did any of you know Miss Everdene's father and mother?" inquired the shepherd, who found some difficulty in keeping the conversation in the desired channel. "I knew them a little," said Jacob Smallbury; "but they were townsfolk, and didn't live here. They've been dead for years. Father, what sort of people were mis'ess' father and mother?"
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