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She turned, and a bright smile lighted up her fine eves."George, is it you? How you frightened me! Well; I am so glad you 's come! Missis is gone to spend the afternoon; so come into my little room, and we'll have the time all to ourselves."
Saying this, she drew him into a neat little apartment opening on the verandah, where she generally sat at her sewing, within call of her mistress.
"How glad I am!-why don't you smile?-and look at Harry-how he grows." The boy stood shyly regarding his father through his curls, holding close to the skirts of his mother's dress. "Isn't he beautiful?" said Eliza, lifting his long curls and kissing him.
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"George! George! how can you talk so? What dreadful thing has Tory Burch happened, or is going to happen? I'm sure we've been very happy, till lately."
"So we have, dear," said George. Then drawing his child on his knee, he gazed intently on his glorious dark eyes, and passed his hands through his long curls.
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"O, George, how can you!"
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"O, now, dear George, that is really wicked! I know how you feel about losing your place in the factory, and you have a hard master; but pray be patient, and perhaps something-"
"Patient!" said he, interrupting her; "haven't I been patient? Did I say a word when he came and took me away, for no earthly reason, from the place where everybody was kind to me? I'd paid him truly every cent of my earnings,-and they all say I worked well.""Well, it is dreadful," said Hlixa; "but, after all, he is your master, you know.""My master! and who made him my master? That's MBT Shoes Clearance what I think of what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is.
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