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Then advancing to the patient, "What has been the matter, Miss Biddy, that you could not wait till my return?"

The first thing to be done was to get Dolly a dress, and this was the way Biddy managed it.

Biddy was seated next to Mr. Nash, so that she could take occasion to ask, "Who are the beautiful ladies?"

Here they behold the faithful Biddy, craning her long neck up and down the road, and filled with wildest anxiety.

"But it makes no difference to you, you know," said Biddy, calmly.

Then for the first time Biddy thought of what Charley might be thinking.

Then he left and we vacated the state parlour at once for the kitchen, where my sister and Biddy were sitting.

Their hair was in disorder, a rope of Biddy's falling over one shoulder, a shining braid of Monny's hanging down her back.

Biddy was with her then; we could hear her voice distinctly, and mamma seemed moaning so.'

He found Biddy hovering about the dark passage, and he guessed at once that she had been a listener.