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Caroline rocked herself back and forth from her waist, defying the uncompromisingly straight chair which inclosed her portly little person.
"Bounded 'n th' _north_ by _Mass'joosetts_; bounded 'n th' _north_ by _Mass'joosetts_; bounded 'n th' _north_ by _Mass'joosetts_," she intoned in a monotonous chant. But her eyes were not upon the map; like those of the gentleman in the poem, they were with her heart, and that was far away.