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 , "and I'm going to Charlestown to visit my uncle. My mother and her cousin went to your reading last night, but, of course, three could n't go from the same family, so I stayed at home. Nora, that's my little sister, stayed at home too. She's too small to go on a journey, but she wanted to go to the reading dreadfully. There was a lady there who had never heard of Betsey Trotwood, and had only read two of your books!" "Well, upon my word!" he said; "you do not mean to say that you have read them!"

"Of course I have," I replied; "every one of them but the two that we are