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Rh the girl to lift her eyes to meet it. They were red and swollen with long weeping, and her face was wan with sorrow and weariness. Jonathan was shocked. He lifted the pattern she was working from, and as he pretended to examine it, said, in a low voice, "Whativer is wrong with thee, Sarah? Thee must tell me."

"There are ill eyes watching us, master, please to go forward at once."

"I'll make thee my wife to-morrow, and shut every ill eye and stop every ill tongue."

"Thou art doing me a great wrong, looking at me that-a-way. Please thee go forward. It is t' kindest thing thou can do."

He laid down the pattern with some remark about its difficulty, and went forward and out of the room altogether. He was for the moment angry at Sarah, but that feeling was speedily superseded by one of pity and anxiety. As he was slowly going down the main stairs, he met Ben Holden coming up. He said to him, "Go into t' room where Sarah Benson is working and look at her face. Then I want thee to find out whativer is wrong with her."

In at one door and out at the other Ben went, and he appeared to glance at every one but