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AGNES GREY.
"Have you, Betty? I heard you were going to leave."
"Eh, bless you, yes! Missis gave me warning a three-wik sin'. She told me afore Christmas how it mud be, if I hit 'em again; but I couldn't hold my hand off 'em at nothing—I know not how you do, for Miss Mary Ann is worse by the half nor her sisters!"