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'Sir, I can give you no details to-night.'
'But what, then,' said he, 'do you expect me to do for you?'
'Nothing,' I replied. My strength sufficed for but short answers.
Diana took the word-
'Do you mean,' she asked, 'that we have now given you what aid
you require? and that we may dismiss you to the moor and the rainy
night?'
I looked at her. She had, I thought, a remarkable countenance,
instinct both with power and goodness. I took sudden courage.
Answering her compassionate gaze with a smile, I said- 'I will trust
you. If I were a masterless and stray dog, I know that you would not
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turn me from your hearth to-night: as it is, I really have no fear. Do
with me and for me as you like; but excuse me from much discourse-
my breath is short- I feel a spasm when I speak.' All three surveyed
me, and all three were silent.
'Hannah,' said Mr. St. John, at last, 'let her sit there at
present, and ask her no questions; in ten minutes more, give her the
remainder of that milk and bread. Mary and Diana, let us go into the
parlour and talk the matter over.'
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