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Book Excerpt: dn't.""Who said you did, you black thing, you?" said Julia, who in her grief forher favorite, and her anger at Aunt Judy, forgot the stranger, and herbashfulness, too. "You were careless, I know you were," she continued, "oryou never could have tipped the coffee over in this manner.""Never mind, sister," said Fanny, "never mind; of course, Aunt Judy didn'tmean to do it, for she likes Dido as well as we do.""Lor' bless Miss Fanny's sweet face, that I do like Dido," said Aunt Judy."Yes, that you do," repeated Julia mockingly, "just as though you couldlike anything."Here Mrs. Middleton interposed and ordered Julia and Fanny to take theirseats at the table, while Judy cleared away all traces of the disaster.Julia complied with an ill-grace, muttering something about "the hatefulnegroes," while Fanny obeyed readily, and laughingly made some remark toMr. Wilmot about their making so much ado over a dog, "but," said she, "weare silly girls, and of course do silly things. Probably we shaRead More
