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"One day I received a terrible shock. Child as I was, I felt it severely. It came so suddenly, so unexpectedly, that it fell like a thunderbolt upon me.
"It was a morning in November when the carrier's cart stopped at the manor house, and left a box directed to me, in the care of the steward.