… 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 …

The mother bird had mov’d not, But cowering o’er her nestlings, Sate confident and fearless, And watch’d the wonted guest.

Her fingers curled climbingly along the stem of her wine glass and Merrick noticed a slight tremble to their otherwise composed motion.

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