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CHILDREN were bundled promiscuously within cottage doors, and mothers followed them. Handcock stood up at last. He seemed an easy-going sort of individual-indolent perhaps, and not readily startled or flurried by passing events.
"O Nannie! " Susan had said faintly, at the first instant. Then she sent Susie indoors, and stood close to it herself, waiting.