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it after her, that the spring of the lock was always broken.
Mary, hearing herself called on, entered, and asked if she could render her any assistance in dressing. "O yes," cried Bell, "if you will only come and help me to find my things; I dont know, I am sure, where they are all gone to. I have looked all these drawers through, and I cannot find a single pair of stockings fit to put on. What shall I do! I have nothing fit to wear. O me! what shall I do?"
"What! nothing fit to wear, among all these heaps of clothes?" said Mary; "I believe, few girls in the country have such a well-stored wardrobe. We, at any rate, have no reason to complain, as we always find my father" ———
"My father!" interrupted Bell, "I am sure my father would never let us wear any thing in the fashion, if he could. But what should he know about dress, at Gowan Brae?—I wonder you have not
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