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Dr. Partridge lived at this time on the hill north of the village, and / not very far from the parsonage, which made it convenient for him to / report promptly to Parson West, when any of his patients had / reached that point where spiritual must be substituted for medical / ministrations. It was about ten o'clock by the silver dialed clock in / the living room of the doctor's house, when Prudence Fennell knocked at / the open kitchen door.
"What do you want, child? " said Mrs. Partridge, who was in the kitchen / trying to instruct a negro girl how to use her broom of twigs so as to / distribute the silver sand upon the floor in the complex wavy figures, / which were the pride of the housewife of that day.