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What, you are nervous, are you? I say, what letter is that? Who is it for?

Lud, Sir, I never read the direction, it's for the post.

Why need you go out with it, then, when the letter-box is in the hall? Give it to me, and I'll put it in.

O Sir, that wo'n't take it to the place it is going to.

Did you not tell me this moment that it is for the post?

Did I, Sir? I was wrong. Sir; I must take it myself.

Come, come; no more waiting-maid prevarications! Give me the letter, I charge you, and I'll take it where it should go. Give me the letter this instant.

There, Sir.

By heaven and earth just what I expected. (Sternly to her.) And you did not know to