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Rh James said he was really ashamed of what he had done, and that he thought he never should do so again.

“I hope you will not my dear,” said his aunt; “but I must send you home to-morrow, notwithstanding all your promises; because the fruit is all to be gathered from the garden the day after to-morrow, and I find you are not to be trusted even to see it. Besides, if you should eat too much of it, you would be sick, and perhaps you would die.”