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I was still sitting there, with my head propped in my hands, when my eyes, which had seen nothing before, saw Sally coming through the hot dust in the street, with George Bolingbroke, carrying a bundle under his arm, at her side. As she neared me a perplexed and anxious look -- the look I had seen always on the face of my mother when the day's burden was heavy -- succeeded the smiling brightness with which she had been speaking to George.
"Why, Ben! " she exclaimed, quickening her steps, "what are you doing out here in this terrible heat?"