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"You believe that Dr. Etwald killed Maurice?","And then isn't it sweet to think," continues Violet, warming to her subject, "that when one's friends are dead one can still be of some service to them, in praying for their souls? It seems to keep them always with one. They don't seem so lost to us as they would otherwise.",“Have you come to see me in all this bad weather?” said Jeremias.,"And a profusion of gold, too," says Lady Rodney, with a sigh.,"You are right. I wish to know if you have discovered anything new.",Mrs. Wopp, after ascertaining that the little boy had received no bodily injury, stood mopping her heated face with the half-mended sock. She ceased operations to survey Betty more carefully.,"Missus Wilson, where's Billy?",I don't know just how long I sat by the open window all by myself, bathed in a perfect flood of moonlight and loneliness. It was not a bit of comfort to hear Aunt Adeline snoring away in her room upstairs. It takes the greatest congeniality to make a person's snoring a pleasure to anybody, and Aunt Adeline and I are not that way.,“But I asked for her, mamma.” Billy’s voice lost its exuberance. His mother never had looked so tired, he thought for the second time that day.,"Ha!" said Captain Acton. "He was at St Vincent.",With this she inclines her head, and without another word goes back by the way she has come.,"Have you ever read Shelley?" asks he, presently, puzzled by the extreme serenity of her manner..