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8 So saying he kissed her. Tibby neither blushed nor proffered refusal, because it was the way that the saints of old saluted one another; and away she went with the joyful news to her poor mother and aunty. Now they had of late found themselves quite easy in their circumstances, owing to the large wages Tibby received, every farthing of which was added to the common stock; and though Tibby appeared a little brawer at the meeting house, it was her grandmother, who laid it ont on her, without any consent on her part. I am sure said her grandmother, when Tibby told the story of her master's kindness and attention, "I am sure it was the kindest intervention o' Providence that ever happened to poor things afore, when ye fell in wi' that kind worthy man, i' the middle of a great hiring market, where ye might just as easily hae met wi' a knave, or a niggard, or a sinner, wha wad hae thought naething o' working your ruin,—as wi this man o' sickan charity an' money."

said old Douglas Hervey, poking in the fire all the while with the tongs, and speaking only as if speaking to herself—"Hech-wow an' lack-a-day! but the times are altered