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"WELL, I never! " uttered Miss Perkins as Jessie stepped in. "So that's what you call just going across the road, is it?"
Jessie had not the faintest recollection of any such words as coming from herself; but she seemed to have lived through a small lifetime of feeling since last crossing the threshold, and memory was confused.