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She went and dropped her curtsey at
the parlour door, and in a miminy piminy voice said she was come to make
her submission, and would he forgive her, and give her another trial? Her
penitence, after one or two convulsive efforts, ended in a very fair flow
of tears.
Mr. Hardie shrugged his shoulders, and asked Jane if the girl had ever
been saucy to her.
"Oh no, papa: indeed I have no fault to find with poor Peggy."
"Well, then, go to your work, and try and not offend Betty; remember she
is older than you."
Peggy went for her box and bandbox, and reinstated herself quietly, and
all old Betty's endeavours to irritate her only elicited a calm cunning
smile, with a depression of her downy eyelashes.
_Albion Villa._
Next morning Edward Dodd was woke out of a sound sleep at about four
o'clock, by a hand upon his shoulder: he looked up, and rubbed his eyes;
it was Julia standing by his bedside, dressed, and in her bonnet.
"Edward," she said in a hurried whisper, "there is foul play: I cannot
sleep, I cannot be idle. He has been decoyed away, and perhaps murdered.


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