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Renewing then my courage; and gathering my feeble remains of strength; I pushed on。 I reached the house; and knocked at the kitchen…door。 An old woman opened: I asked was this the parsonage?

“Yes。”

“Was the clergyman in?”

“No。”

“Would he be in soon?”

“No; he was gone from home。”

“To a distance?”

“Not so far—happen three mile。 He had been called away by the sudden death of his father: he was at Marsh End now; and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer。”

“Was there any lady of the house?”

“Nay; there was naught but her; and she was housekeeper;” and of her; reader; I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away。

Once more I took off my handkerchief—once more I thought of the cakes of bread in the little shop。 Oh; for but a crust! for but one mouthful to allay the pang of famine! Instinctively I turned my face again to the village; I found the shop again; and I went in; and though others were there besides the woman I ventured the request—“Would she give me a roll for this handkerchief?”

She looked at me with evident suspicion: “Nay; she never sold stuff i’ that way。”

Almost desperate; I asked for half a cake; she again refused。 “How could she tell where I had got the handkerchief?” she said。

“Would she take my gloves?”

“No! what could she do with them?”

Reader; it is not pleasant to dwell on thes

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