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Speaker 1: It begins with a bit of gossip of a neighbor

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Speaker 1: who has come in to see Miss Bennett and was

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Speaker 1: telling her about a family who had lately moved into

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Speaker 1: say she'll be turned out, she ended turned out, how dreadful,

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Speaker 1: and the children too, and Miss Bennett shuddered, Yes, unless

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Speaker 1: somebody'll adopt them, and that's not very likely. Well, I

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Speaker 1: must go, the visitor went on, rising, I wish I

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Speaker 1: could do something for her, but with my household of children,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I have with only myself, said Miss Bennett

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Speaker 1: repeated to herself as she resumed her knitting. It's as

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Speaker 1: said again, I wish I could help her, And the

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Speaker 1: needles flew in and out, in and out faster than ever.

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Speaker 1: As she turned this over in her mind, I might

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Speaker 1: give up something, she said at last, though I don't

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Speaker 1: know what. Unless unless, she said, slowly, thinking of her

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Speaker 1: don't seem as if I could do that. Sometime the

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Speaker 1: thought worked in her mind, and finally she resolved to

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Speaker 1: Though she had never seen her, and she had only

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Speaker 1: heard she was in want. How much of a sacrifice

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Speaker 1: that was? You can hardly guess that evening missus Stanley

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Speaker 1: was surprised by a small gift of money from a friend,

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Speaker 1: She asked from the bed where she was lying. Miss

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Speaker 1: that he had already told. The next day, Miss Bennett

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Speaker 1: saw her before. Come in, she called. In answer to

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Speaker 1: Are you Miss Bennett, she asked, Yes, said Miss Bennett,

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Speaker 1: see you, Hetty, she said. Won't you sit down? Yes,

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Speaker 1: if you please, said Hetty, taking a chair near her.

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Speaker 1: When she went away, Miss Bennett asked her to come again,

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Speaker 1: a thing she had never been known to do before.

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Speaker 1: Was her mother's question. As Hetty opened the door, Henny

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Speaker 1: something to please her. That visit of Hetty's was the

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Speaker 1: All this time Christmas was drawing near, and strange unusual

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Speaker 1: she did not think much about that happy time. She

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Speaker 1: With a sigh, where the sight of it brought up

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Speaker 1: One thing only she had to buy a thimble, and

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Speaker 1: The happiest girl in town on Christmas morning was Hetty Stanley.

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Speaker 1: come was her worst fear being turned out. But that

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Speaker 1: good deed of hers had already borne fruit, and was

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Speaker 1: said the first speaker. She'll never go there, declared Hetty

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Speaker 1: with blazing eyes. Oh and who's to prevent that from happening,

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Speaker 1: went on Hetty indignantly and turned suddenly. She was surprised

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Speaker 1: very willing to spare her. To provide food for two

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Speaker 1: what can it mean? I never saw it before. It says,

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Speaker 1: look and ye shall find? And what is this under it?

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Speaker 1: can it mean? And she pondered over it long and

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Speaker 1: all day, seemed absent minded. After tea, when they sat

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Speaker 1: And it all comes, she added, softly, from your unselfishness

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Speaker 3: Wake fail.

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Speaker 2: Toast a toast were bier Woods