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407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell

The History of Literature

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The Old Lord Never Touched His Organ Again

Miss Fernaval and Mrs. Stark were always spying about the east rooms. The color left Miss Grace's cheek and lips that very day forever. She was heard to say many a time that sooner or later she would have her revenge. On the morrow of that wild and fearful night, the shepherds coming down the fell side found Miss Mod sitting, all crazy and smiling under the holly trees, nursing a dead child with a terrible mark on its right shoulder. But that was not what killed it, said Dorothy, it was the frost in the cold. And now you know all, and I wonder if you are less frightened now? I was more frightened than ever, but I

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