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186 And Betty's still at Susan's side:

By this time she 's not quite so flurried:

Demure with porringer and plate

She sits, as if in Susan's fate

Her life and soul were buried.

But Betty, poor good Woman! she,

You plainly in her face may read it,

Could lend out of that moment's store

Five years of happiness or more

To any that might need it.

But yet I guess that now and then

With Betty all was not so well,

And to the road she turns her ears,

And thence full many a sound she hears,

Which she to Susan will not tell.

Poor Susan moans, poor Susan groans;

"As sure as there's a moon in heaven,"

Cries Betty, "he 'll be back again;

They'll both be here—'tis almost ten—

They'll both be here before eleven."