[...] and “Folks that hed no call to go to bed, not nights, they slep' the hull time”—had fallen utterly in love with “that fairysome cur'osity that you go and call Viffer;” and bowed to the earth before her, for two reasons: one, that this “mite of a lady” had once appeared in one of Sal.'s solitary haunts, where she lay on the ground in sore anguish [...]
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