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"That was very nasty of me," confesses Mona. "Yet," with a sigh, "perhaps I was right." "What a wretched evening!" says Violet, with a little shiver. "Geoffrey, draw the curtains closer." Now they began to do their best to make life easier for the good old woman who had worked so hard to keep them from starving and freezing..

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Her face changes. He has made no mention of the treasured gown, has said no little word of praise. "How paltry this country must appear in comparison with your own!" goes on the girl, longing for a contradiction, and staring at her little brown hands, the fingers of which are twining and intertwining nervously with one another, "How glad you will be to get back to your own home!" "I wasn't," says Mona: "I went out a great deal. All day long I was in the open air. That is what made my hands so brown last autumn." "Lave him alone!" cries she; "take yer hands off him! He's dead, as ye well know, the whole of ye. There's no more ye can do to him. Then lave his poor body to the woman whose heart is broke for the want of him!".