407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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Hester, Hester! Let Me Go to Her!
Miss Fernaval stood listening and paid no regard to my darling who had got down to the ground. All at once the east door gave way with a thundering crash as if torn open in a violent passion. There came into that broad and mysterious light the figure of a tall old man with grey hair and gleaming eyes. He drove before him, a stern and beautiful woman with a little child clinging to her dress. ''Oh, Hester, Hester!" cried Miss Rosemont. ''They want me to go with them onto the fells! They are drawing me to them!' But when she saw the uplifted crutch, she swooned away. She was carried to her
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