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"Miss Sibby! " exclaimed the assembled party, in one breath, as they all arose to welcome her.
"Oh, yes! " said the good woman, after she had shaken hands all around, and had sunk breathless into the nearest easy chair. "It is all mighty fine to cry out ‘Miss Sibby,' as if you were overjoled at the sight of me; but deeds speak louder than words, sez I. And them as runs away to the city and leave me behind, sez I, and then pretends to be glad to see me, sez I, is nothing but ‘sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal,' sez I. Yes, it's you I mean, Sam Grandiere!"