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80 "—She is still here,"—"Thank God. Let her know; She'll pardon a comer so late as this Whom she'd fain not miss."

She received him—an ancient dame, Who hemmed, with features frozen and numb, "How strange!—I'd almost forgotten your name!— A call just now—is troublesome; Why did you come?”