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“Has she, sister?” said Mrs. Tulliver,Canada Goose Woolford Kabáty, with an air of much interest. “And how do you like it?”
“It’s apt to make a mess with clothes, taking ’em out and putting ’em in again,” said Mrs. Pullet, drawing a bunch of keys from her pocket and looking at them earnestly, “but it ‘ud be a pity for you to go away without seeing it. There’s no knowing what may happen.”
Mrs. Pullet shook her head slowly at this last serious consideration, which determined her to single out a particular key.
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Mrs. Pullet rose with a melancholy air and unlocked one wing of a very bright wardrobe, wh
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