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Dear Mrs Caldwell

my friend and neighbor Mr Gideon Hopkins

had the pleasure to make your

acquaintance this summer on a ferry trip

from Cyprus to Crete thank you

if you are reading this it means that

his first suspicions have been confirmed

you Mrs Caldwell are my mother

I trust I will be forgiven for not

remembering when or why we parted

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my beloved husband was recently

kidnapped by gypsies

and I must admit the experience has left

me somewhat undone

deprived of his protection my children

and I live like wild animals demented by

hunger and at risk of losing shelter as

well

we are kept afloat by one hope

that having been alerted to our plight

you will joyfully embrace your maternal

responsibility

and restore us to our former lives

anxiously awaiting your reply

you're sincerely Mary

chapter one The Letter

by which Our Story begins good morning

Tilly

thank you have a good day

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delivering a baby how much time could it

take

she's been gone all night and half the

day

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don't worry she is well

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I found it the serving platter lovely

at this rate I'm supposed the post

office can do without your hovering for

one day I'm not hovering I shall die of

shock of this mysterious letter ever

arrives you're slower that's all we have

we better put it away so it doesn't get

wasted

what are you doing

playing Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is two weeks away I've been

over the pantry it seems we need pudding

cranberries mashed potatoes turkey and

fries

basically everything

it's not like other years we may not

have a Thanksgiving Solomon this way we

won't be tempted

watch yourself Solomon Solomon

he was an accident mother

well at least you get busy

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there won't be pudding and there won't

be pies but we'll have each other and

that's what thanksgiving's all about

but we have each other all the time

pudding is what you look forward to we

can look forward to a very special

Thanksgiving

no pudding no pudding you're turkey no

cranberries I'm stuffing and gravy

how if we can put dinner on the table

then at least we can put it on the

tablecloth this is another stitching

project we have much leftover cloths can

be cut into turkeys and pilgrims we'll

make it together over the next couple

weeks

can I get the claw

everyone can cut the cloth

how's Mrs Ewell

very well all things considered not well

enough to pay

Achilles crossbow missing the post I

went by the post office on my way home

and

Gideon's back from college

cat's back that's what they told me came

home in the morning coach

brother

you're an angel you're saying what about

the letter doesn't matter yeah it's back

you're not going

why shouldn't I miss Hopkins hates us

she doesn't hate us she won't even know

I'm there

what are you doing coming with you

listen you can't Prudence this is

terribly important everything's

important to you guys that is my God I

should never do anything I think Dad

found our grandmother

one mother won't talk about

and she's rich

extremely

oh Tilly I wrote her a letter asking for

help which God was going to deliver

where's your grandmother if mother found

out she would die which is why I need to

speak with him privately

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have a look what is this

I'll tell you that is a fingerprint and

a fingerprint does not belong on a door

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thank you

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again

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start with a bedroom and this time I'd

like you to lift up my perfume bottles

please when you do the dusting

Byron

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perhaps you require more privacy

he's meant for you

it was meant to be a surprise ow

was a nasty trick trick yes

you've completely changed I could see

you haven't

I've matured more than it might first

appear

so I see

you've been away for decades

how many languages do you speak now

three

how are you Tilly

there must be a more compelling topic

whatever I wrote to you about your

father you never answered

no one knows more about losing a loved

one than I do

mother says that you're behind on the

rent there must be something I can do to

help you

give me your news

see I shall have to torture you Lord

Sticky Wicket

if I mean to get at the truth

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never I'm not a busybody I will die

before giving up my secrets

trousers

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Mrs Caldwell

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were my suspicions confirmed

is she my grandmother

she is

what's she like

in body well favored and speech eloquent

manner refined go on

she lives in a house as big as a palace

paintings by all the great Masters name

them say Zan you lie dega Gideon

she's well read keeping up with her in

conversations like dancing on coals my

letter

with Tilly

did she read it

you say she threw it away

I'm so sorry

don't be silly

it's not right

after all what did I expect she doesn't

know what she's missing

there must be some reason they haven't

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don't forget

I was just saying to myself I wonder how

those poor children are doing and here

you are

right before my eyes how is your mother

very well she must be Dreadful such a a

robust husband stolen from her in the

prime of life

it's late

to give her my best

under pity they live in such wretched

circumstances they would otherwise be

good company

now I am so often alone

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inspired by your great words and Noble

countenance to ask for help

I've done all that is in my power to

save my family

without some intervention we are sure to

lose what little we have left

I make no frivolous petition in return

for your Aid I'm prepared to become your

postulant

sacrificing my Creature Comforts

entirely

and devoting my life and writing to the

pursuit of nothing but Beauty and Truth

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what are you doing

side

never possessed you

I've been putting potatoes last year

silly we won't starve our storage bins

are empty

I'm working and so are you

must be more than just us

some relatives we could ask for

assistance

in Ireland

what about yours

you're still alive aren't they

some Bargains to cosplay to make

I've spent many hours trying to unravel

the mystery of my mother

one thing I know about her past was that

she at one time owned a skittish horse

that is how she met my father

Ellis Bassett

she was trapped under a bridge in

Central Park unable to get the terrified

Beast to move until happening upon them

my father began singing to it in Gaelic

according to him by the time they got

home he had proposed

years later my Father revealed that his

songs were actually off-color jokes

the horse like my mother being badly in

need of a good laugh

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wake up Tilly there's been an accident

he sent her mother Dr Bones away on

holiday

perhaps if you kept more reasonable

hours you wouldn't find it so difficult

to arouse yourself I'm awake most

mornings before produce or Solomon

look at all the dresses

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merry bastard thank goodness someone who

knows what to do is anyone hurt

The Coachman

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stand back now clear the way stay back

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how is it well I'm worried about that

accident could take a few days

oh well that's right

I'm here to visit my daughter your

daughter well who would that be

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chapter 2 Pandora's Box

containing among other things a great

many dresses a strained reunion

and a fox

you know what they say after a society

lady wears a dress once

throws it away

don't be silly

if she's so alive I don't see why she

can't find a place to stay

why do I have to sleep up here

it's always so cold

do you want a Thanksgiving turkey

then you'd best behave

how could all of you fit in such a small

space

consider ourselves fortunate

present circumstance is notwithstanding

you seem well

enough

you have your health

how long can we expect to indulge in

these pleasantries

prefer we can dispense with them

immediately what is it you require

what

money I require nothing

your husband is kidnapped and you

without the means to pay the rent

my husband is

Pew didn't bring me here to make me a

fool well I didn't bring you here at all

well you must have known I couldn't read

such a letter and put it aside letter or

that talk of wild animals and gypsies it

seemed you had become unhinged I could

not very well have that on my conscience

could I

uh this letter may I see it

these are difficult times I'm not always

in my right mind

kidnapped by gypsies

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live like wild animals it seems I've

overstated my case

I see

my children and I have no need of your

help

I should remove myself to a hotel

you're welcome to stay until your

Carriage is repaired I don't wish to

inconvenience you the cause of this

misunderstanding it's the least that I

can do

yeah

give that to me the sensitive what I get

this

I think I should lie down

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why did you ask about my family when you

had already taken matters into your own

hands

my words must mean nothing to you

I didn't know what else to do

did your father died

you behave as if there's no one left

have you once gone to bed hungry in my

care have you been called

no

I may not be as spirited as your father

was but I deserve your trust I'm sorry

I just thought with the holidays upon us

we've had so little

come all this way

why don't you let her help us

my mother helps is

what you doing

what you do

as a rule it is advisable not just by

in some countries they gouge out your

eyes

Solomon did not return the fox he

understood it was important to return it

if not to secure his Thanksgiving turkey

than for his mother's sake

but it had a certain hold over him

four-leaf clover or a rabbit's foot

in its company he felt braver and more

certain than he had since his father

passed away

he became convinced that as long as he

kept it

would all be protected from further harm

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laughs

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what no thank you no

Mr you

mother

my mother

all right

he helps with the farm what kind of help

can such a man be his name is Abel Yule

and he was injured in the war he can't

speak we invited him to work so that his

family would be taken care of

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insensible to the realities of your

situation

greater distance if not for yourself and

for the safety of your children

you have nothing to say about how I

raise my children

you could have had anything you wanted

best education tours of Europe personal

acquaintance with well-bred men and

women money is the only thing you can

imagine wanting isn't it I feared it

would cut us

you have no idea what it has come to

vagrant

vagrant

he was the finest man I ever met in my

life

pity you and all your well-bred friends

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fox in a hen house

Mary Beth to do keep the most

extraordinary secrets to think your

father was Harold Caldwell the greatest

importer of silk and tea this country

has ever seen you are well informed oh

dear and you Mrs Caldwell our most

fortunate to have had such a husband I

find Liberty to be a better husband than

he was ah

it does seem frightfully early I know

but as I said to Mr Hopkins I didn't

want to miss the opportunity to meet

wouldn't that have been a pity

speaking of silk Mrs Hopkins

what exactly is the substance of your

attire it's so original this uh it's

flax

that was the pour it for breakfast

um

Mrs Hopkins is uh in mourning Hopkins

last three sons to scarlet fever nearly

five years ago

I'm so sorry

since then I can't bear to wear anything

fancy

I may Mrs Hopkins

and I suggest that you

left a little Joy back into your life

well fine sand here has just returned

from abroad

why not celebrate

try a party

with

flowers and music

thank you dear

thank you for coming thank you Mr

Hopkins thank you so much for having us

dear

I saw the Collins family earlier

I think Mr Collins died

I didn't want to say anything in front

of Mrs Hopkins

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knocking is always good

I know why my mother doesn't want you

here

is that right you're not nice

you made fun of Mrs Hopkins and you

insulted my family

my father was not a vagrant

is there some reason you feel compelled

to discuss this with me

because I brought you here

I wrote that letter

did yes

that explains it

gypsies

how marvelous

I suppose you'll want to go

no

I have just found a reason to stay

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the visit began to take on a different

character

less guarded and more like a game

although who would enjoy it remained

uncertain

nevermind girl

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wasn't like this before my father died

oh women are too quick to give men

credit they're not truly owed

you didn't know him

perhaps I could be educated

why did you call him a vagrant

before he became a paragon

he was my stable boy

I suppose Tilly is still sleeping

your best workers should be late for Mr

cartridge

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this entire field was stoned

people said nothing would grow here

that's why Mr Hopkins rented it so

cheaply

my father planted beans and beets

potatoes

he could tell the precise day of the

year just by looking at the plants

my

most people were improved by my father

dad says he can perform the worst cynic

in the world

shall I add cynic tomatoes to virtues

that's up to you

my father built this

I suppose he's the one who taught you

how to write

no he didn't know how to write my mother

taught us

how did he die

working the fields

Mr you'll found him crushed by a tree

you must miss him my father said

everything is a lesson from which we

ultimately profit nevertheless you have

the right to complain you're a strong

young woman like your mother

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once I beheld this Blended dream

a Visionary scene with a bliss

truth wherefore did thy hated beam awake

me to a world like this

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oh I forgot about Mr Carter Road

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most people will have their Thanksgiving

dinner and then it'll be gone

we'll have ours the whole year round

I like it better if those pudding

involved

well I think if your father were here

he'd find lots to love about this tape

cloth

can we put him on it

you like that

like that it's supposed to know how to

distract Tilly which is quite at Sea

when it comes to practical matters she's

up half the night writing stories into

your eyes late for work Mr cartridge has

already complained

I must go to the youth

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children aren't well

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you can run too if you like

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what sort of stories does Tilly write

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me up bits and cheese all three of them

burning up I've seen this before I've

seen people die from it you must put

Cold Blood gloves on their forehead it

will draw the fever out and change them

often

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welcome home

oh you're Dreadful

Carter Road was wretched tortilly

he lectured me on my lateness refused

his soup and held back half my pay

on the bright side grandmother seems

happy

we might just get that turkey

importing

one minute and I'll have the tea

you've done something

absolutely

you have no right

thank you

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you hated it

I didn't say that you didn't say

anything

it is quite Lively

Lively spirited

he did hate it I like your people

if you don't find them dull and ordinary

there's nothing ordinary about you

or your people

keep putting my characters in a place

like this

what's wrong with a place like this

there's nothing but cows and fur trees

well if you don't like cows

maybe you should get out

you mean leave

as I've done let's explore the world

take note of what it's like

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possible allies

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how long will it take if it were up to

me she'd have it already caused quite a

stir your mother all the women coming in

trying to match her outfits

a couple more days could be a week

a week

European parts

good luck isn't it she'll make the

Hopkins party

potato

okay good

why tie her up to keep her Parts in

old people of trouble otherwise

may I cut this up for the Thanksgiving

project

I can make a bed of leaves out of it

Isabella says I should have a proper

gown

does she

says the first impression is what one

always remembers

I trust it does not owe Sony to one's

costume

the outward appearance affects the

estimation of the rest

too hope to affect a particular person

or just cause a general stir

we do not have Isabella's wardrobe at

our disposal

I know

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mother

I thought you might wear it

it's not the dress that matters Tilly

it's how you feel inside

what is that where did you get a corset

special delivery from Matilda Bassett

she said I could have it

let's see just for tonight

put those things in your room for now

children

my mother took few things when she in

Dallas Bassett left her home when she

was 17.

the plainest dress she owned

a pair of sturdy shoes for my father had

warned her they would do a great deal of

walking

the embroidered shawl he gave her when

they became engaged

and a porcelain cup

the cup was part of a tea service

originally presented to Louis XIV in

1683 which Isabella had had

painstakingly reassembled on her many

trips abroad

it was the only complete set of its kind

for most of my mother's childhood

Isabella had the service on proud

display in the hallway

my father heard rumor that she kept it

out after my mother left

the empty sauce for a daily reminder of

what had been taken from her

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so good thank you good to see you old

man

joining me

you look lovely

oh at last our guest of on looking

lovely as always good evening good

evening how wonderful good evening good

evening oh Mrs Bassett

hello Mary

you must forgive us for staring we are

struck down

praise more eloquent than any flattery

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just follow me you'll be fine

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your mother seemed unhappy when I walked

in

that's because she's feeling guilty

for what not accepting you sooner

seems we both were rather late to come

to our senses

you have always had my friendship

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I'd always find you hiding somewhere

under the piano in the coat closet

Tilly's doing beautifully you should see

her

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it was your choice

no I don't want her regretting what

isn't within her means but she can have

whatever she wants not from you so you

continue to punish me

for wanting you a better husband

all truth

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when I left with Alice you were relieved

it don't be ridiculous why didn't you

stop me then you made your choice there

was no choice

you never wanted me my whole childhood I

saw you fewer times and some people see

distant friends you embellish when you

did come I was kept out of sight by my

governess it was quick to remind me I

must keep my distance or run the risk of

shortening or stay you had everything as

a child

complete freedom freedom it's not what a

child needs you are no comfort

the moment you were born I felt your

judge

judgment I was a baby how can I travel

for your approval oh

sort of practice of approval for me will

take it from Tilly

I have lost much this past year I do not

wish to lose my daughter as well

Tilly come quickly come

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help me no some air please God get some

walking yes

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ha

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oh

I'm fine she just fainted dead away of

course it's generally produced such

outcomes

they go home oh but

the the party has just started

he's right

I want to stay

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chapter 5 new life

changed World in one night every door

once closed swinging open

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what on Earth are you doing

I had a grand time last night

so did I

come to tea

have you gone insane

I hope you don't treat all your suitors

this way

don't blame the poor boy the idea was

completely mine

I can't I must work at Mr Carter Woods

it's been taken care of

it

they put the pig's head on the table and

the King considering it a great honor

plucked out of the eye and gave it to me

did you eat it

you've gone your whole life without Fine

Food

one day will not ruin you

no one shopping expedition

it's a good one

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ladies

an unforgettable day

it was

good

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this is for us

and this one's for you

thank you perfect oh I see land pilgrims

they're having a feast

sweet potatoes

Creameries

turkey

not like that

not like how

look how you're doing it patience child

you must allow an old woman to find her

way

perhaps patience is overrated as a

virtue after all

right

come

go on go on

she bought us everything

we shall have our Thanksgiving

please mother

you've worked so hard just enjoy it

it's wonderful

no you'll excuse me where were you

with the youth

how are the children

I can't tell whether they're getting

better or not well you mustn't keep

going there mother

putting yourself at risk

Mr you'll risked his life and saved your

fathers in the war

we owe them our best efforts at least

please mother don't go back again

you look tired

it's been a long day

it's not wrong what you did today

mother is a person of unflagging piety

might not be possible to equal her

maybe we should try

father once said Isabella's mistake was

assuming he wanted money

what he really wanted was my mother's

heart

I treasure far too fine to be traded for

gold

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my dear Mary

no doubt you will be surprised to

receive this knowing me to be a man this

is not right

but I've been lucky enough to meet the

acquaintance of a Mr Abel Yule who's

agreed to take on the task of our

correspondence

our paths crossed on a March through

Charleston South Carolina where I found

Mr Ewell endeavoring to free a small

child from his hiding place in a drain

pipe Mr Yule would not escort the boy to

the union Camp was ordered he took him

instead to the Confederate hoping the

child would find his family the soldiers

were so astonished they let us all pass

without harm

his act of kindness saved us all

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until we're together again

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Mrs Bassett what a happy surprise please

you've just missed your lovely mother

I see yes she's taken uh Mrs Hopkins on

a shopping spree

we hope to free her from these tiresome

frogs

and this is uh

this is Caldwell has brought a great

field of life to this house

at a time when I had resigned myself to

seeing my wife mourn for all eternity

I have come about the

room my dear lady do not trouble

yourself

you have been with my son

my mother appears anxious to interfere

in my affairs

I'm afraid she might approach you about

settling my account

I prefer not to be indebted to her

well the rent Mrs Bassett

is no longer my concern

I met with your mother this morning

she purchased the farm outright

it belongs to her now

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we do not choose Our Fate Mrs Bassett

this much I have learned

well one day a man has a family

the next his house is a tomb

therefore

when a bit of good fortune lands on your

doorstep

don't turn it away

chapter six

Devil's bargain

at what price do we secure our dreams

Mrs Caldwell told him ostentation is our

only goal he has succeeded admirably Mrs

Bassett we were trying the effect of Mrs

Hopkins dress I have been entirely

carried away I think it's lovely oh I'm

told you purchased the farm

perhaps this can wait this far

with what in mind in my opinion it is

too far gone to be properly repaired

I plan to remove it good heavens and

where should we live

New York City with me now

um look at the time Gideon we should go

we'll find other lotings let your

resentments make you insensible

resentments your children will be fed

and clothed educated

exposed to culture and art do you want

all of them or just Tilly because if you

only want one there's no point in buying

three your mother does have an

impeccable pedigree oh does she Mary my

mother was born in a hovel Mrs Hopkins

the sort of place we're afraid to set

foot in later in life she became my

father's nurse maid

they married when he became too senile

to object after which she persuaded him

to leave his fortune to her

children spent years trying to contest

the will but as luck would have it

before I'm a child

has made it difficult to have the will

thrown out as I was living proof of

legitimate marriage

my mother's pedigree has been collected

by using her considerable charm to

acquire associations like others collect

works of art stop it

whatever you say she has made us happy

anyone who is unhappy is free to leave

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did you really dislike it that much

everyone's looking for you

I know where to find you what possessed

me you were angry

I shouldn't have taken grandmother's

part it wasn't right

your mother was humiliating her

this isn't why

I want to go

go where anywhere

I've been wanting to go ever since my

father died

the world is not quite so Grand the

place as your grandmother claims my

father used to say I was born for

adventure

do you remember how the three of us

would go to the woods and

he'd get us to imagine what it would be

like

be a macro and the like or being alive

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I don't know how

can I do love you

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marry me

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I'm not ready

I'm only at the beginning

I couldn't find her

I don't know why I thought I would

the other two I can reach

Tilly she has her father's spirit

since he died she's been pulling away

maybe it's the time you stopped holding

on so tightly

you're not like me Mary

won't fail her

if you let go

I'm more like you than I thought

the way I went after you today

it's nice to know you have some fight

we should get the Constable

this isn't drink

let the driver take him stop putting

yourself In Harm's Way

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so you have decided to return

your mother was worried as was I

you shouldn't have done it

my mother and father made this Farm

it wasn't yours to take

how long will she be gone

she didn't say it's not that many days

till Thanksgiving we won't be ready

why does Thanksgiving matter so much to

you

because it's how in the world right

sweetheart

we are more than all right

look

oh how pretty

you see

we have something to be thankful for

already I don't see why

Tilly

people get trapped in it

one went to an entire family froze

hang the turkey over the fire you do not

you too we're hanging oven we already

have an oven it's what you use if you do

it the proper way I think it's time for

a story

what story

camel bit me I don't like candles

what about pyramids do you like pyramids

you've seen pyramids

I want a story about family

something real what about a castle

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that's not real it most certainly is

great grandmother lived in one

why

is she a queen she was a lady

her name was Matilda like Tilly mm-hmm

she lived a long long time ago when

there were nights and

sword fights and dragons no dragons

but they have plenty of danger to keep

them busy

lady Matilda's father was in trouble

with the King

why was he in trouble with the King

because he couldn't keep quiet like you

most people felt he should go into

hiding but lady Matilda's mother was

dead and he refused to leave lady

Matilda alone

in the end

20 soldiers stormed the castle

they brought a battering ram to break

down the gate

took him away to prison

did she cry

no she wanted to save her father

she had to be very brave I would have

taken my father's sword and ran those

soldiers through father had no sword

like the lady Matilda

put all the gold

and all the family jewels in a basket

bread and fruit

in the middle of the night

stole one of the soldiers horses

Road To London

she went straight to the king

and offered the treasures in exchange

for her father's life

King was so moved at her courage that he

agreed

and laid him Matilda's father was

released from prison

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poor in property

richer than a king in family

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how is he I'll pay for the doctor and

any other expenses he requires

he requires that

but what is this condition

dead dead

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chapter seven

scarlet fever

he must be a stranger indeed who has not

heard of that terrible disease that is

usually known as scarlet fever

begins with a slight indisposition much

resembling an ordinary cold

until the fever suddenly increases

then the rash comes from which the

disease gets its name

then the patient is Afflicted with a

cough

quickly succeeded by the most

distressing asthmatic symptoms

under which the poor creature struggles

until released by Perfect Suffocation or

stoppage of breath

the lucky ones survived

why did I bite you

it appears not to have liked the

feathers in my head

camels are notoriously fussy

how is she

past the contagious stage so all we can

do is wait

you're a good girl

you're a great mother

foreign

but why should they have it and not us

that means we're not gonna have any

cranberries any stuffing

he's doing it for mother

we'll take the carriage there's too much

snow

you'll never make it on your own Prince

can't stay here by herself we'll be fine

thank you

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are you going to be all right well never

you mind about me it's a relief really

he was lost already

take good care of your mother she's done

so much for us

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she used to laugh in her you know when

your paw was alive

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they are lucky to have her

your mother

the other day she implied

which was conceived in order to

guarantee my Financial Security

she was angry yeah she was right

I used her

it made it difficult to be in her

company

I traveled often coming home for

meetings with the estate lawyer

he was a good-hearted family man

so I put your mother in pretty dresses

the meetings with me

over time he became sympathetic to us

press the other beneficiaries to settle

their case

till I received your letter

I considered myself lucky to have

acquitted myself so admirably

why are you telling me this

so you won't make the mistake of

excusing

telling yourself as I did that it could

not have been helped

she won't wake

foreign

go

get a basin of cold water

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please don't take her away

please don't take her away please

laughs

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she's everything to us

I've not been grateful

please don't take her

she's cold get some more blankets

foreign

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hold that

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foreign

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coach must have gotten stuck

foreign

scarlet fever that's what the boys had

the carriage won't go

I'm gonna have him try this way

sit for a minute and warm up I'll get

you a cover I must go back please

are you all right

Gideon I don't

don't talk about it I must talk about it

everything's all upside down

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I was wrong to think of leaving

you see that now

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I love you

and I love my family I was too forward

you love me

what do you think

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if we were married how would we be

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live near my family see them as often as

we like

happily to me

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my answer is yes

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foreign

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put that back it's Thanksgiving tomorrow

we can't make a turkey she won't get

better if we don't

foreign

it's only been 10 minutes

we could check no that dries it out

who's lived longer you or I

happened

where's mother she's in her room

is she better

no she's not better

where were you the Hopkins

the Hopkins that's right

well this is hardly the time

it's hardly the time to roast a turkey

fruit don't say a word about that turkey

it's the only good thing that's happened

in months and I won't have you ruin it I

forbid it

at least I'm doing something

suppose this means I wasn't doing any

remember I've had to be sensible

reliable

organized while you sleep late forget

your chores right sonnets I've never

ridden a sonnet in my head it doesn't

make a bit of difference does it

still end up with everything

that's not true

oh there took you to the woods you and

God

where was I you hate the woods how would

I know

I never got to go

true

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what did he does do

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foreign

Thanksgiving

mother such a tender soul

too soon to return to the Earth

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remember

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sense of and convinced that happened in

winter

something our love would be taken from

me

when it died

the first warm day March

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thought caused that all three to four

as always said

life's purpose is greater than our

imagination

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I was wrong about it

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about everything

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please forgive me

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the fever has broken

it seems your mother will be fine

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that mother

Andrew are you well we've made the

turkey daily gave the rest of the Yules

oh

grandmother's Carriage got stuck at the

end of the road The Coachman and the

footmen were digging it out all night

and what else

yet proposed

and I've accepted

so

but you wanted to be a writer that was

ages ago

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let's see

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mother as well

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[Applause]

using a turkey which you were all

invited to eat

[Laughter]

mother

I hope you won't leave right

I have a proposal for you

hello hello ah hello just a few things

some puddings and cheese how's your

mother uh she's much better thank you

good why don't you take that for Mrs

Hawkins

okay

it's lovely perhaps Mr Hopkins should

carve we can't start

not till mother comes oh Solomon oh the

poor woman is just recovered

it's not Thanksgiving if she's not with

us Solomon mother needs rest

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this is what I need

mother

I Heard a Voice say something about

Thanksgiving was that you Solomon

there's lots of food

[Laughter]

please allow me

to be thankful for

may I

thanks for the Roses by the wayside

thanks for Thorns their stems contain

thanks for home

and thanks for Fireside

thanks for hope that sweet refrain

amen

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so they do tell us

why before

to the turkey

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thank you

cannot give my blessing

you have the benefit of four years of

college and you're abroad

Tilly has no such experience to prepare

her

I was not aware it is required

I was invited her to undertake some

travels and studies of her own

if after that she's of the same mind she

is free to wet

again

lovely evening thank you for coming

be sad

you were gone five years I won't be that

long

a minute is too long

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foreign

everything whenever you get to a hotel

wouldn't do for a famous writer to

travel the world looking as wrinkled as

a prune

don't make me cry

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don't forget me

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for luck

still need the small bags tonight and

the big bags we can leave on the

carriage

can't go

your father didn't permit the word can't

I Left My Home In Anger you're leaving

with all my love and support

I was happy

you'll find more happiness

oh

I'll miss you

you come back for dinner anytime

oh

for you goodbye little puppets

and marzipan and chocolate

good bye you big strong girl thank you

so much

take care of her oh you and Ellis raised

her well Mary she can take care of

herself and

foreign

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a long time ago up among the New

Hampshire Hills lived a man his wife

and a pile of sturdy children

we were poor in money but rich in land

and love

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the wide Acres of wood corn and pasture

fed and clothed the flock while Mutual

patients affection and courage made our

old farmhouse a very happy home

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for those who dream of Adventure it may

seem too simple a place to start our

story until we remember that the best

Adventures begin with simple things

not gypsies or sword fights or dragons

but hope and family and love hey hey

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I'm better

I love you

me too

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[Applause]

thank you foreign

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