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 in your native place a good round tale; and they'll all say 'Well done,' depend on it."

When the school-master got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery, as if she lived there.

But she seemed timid at his approach.

"Of course, my dear, I sha'n't expect to intrude upon your personal privacy any more than I did before," he said, gravely. "It is for our good socially to do this, and that's its justification, if it was not my reason."

Sue brightened a little.