It’s forty-ninth Deuteronomy, sixty-fourth to ninety-seventh inclusive. I think we ought all to read it often.

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Perhaps so; I generally use a hair-pin.

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What did you say? (Aside.) Children, do be quiet!

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Oh! B flat! Dear me, I thought you said it was the cat!

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Since when?

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Why, I never heard of it.

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You astound me! It seems utterly impossible!

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Who did?

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Good-ness gracious!

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Well, what is this world coming to? Was it right in church?

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And was her mother there?

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Why, Mrs. Bagley, I should have died of humiliation! What did they do?

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I can’t be perfectly sure, because I haven’t the notes by me; but I think it goes something like this: te-rolly- loll-loll, loll lolly-loll-loll, O tolly-loll-loll-lee-ly-li-i-do! And then repeat, you know.

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Yes, I think it is very sweet—and very solemn and impressive, if you get the andantino and the pianissimo right.

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