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Esther, the able mistress of the kitchen, was standing in the garden picking green peas, which hung in clusters from the vines. They had ripened quickly in the sunny June weather.
"Come down here, Cornelli! " she called. "Just see how many peas there are! Why do you steal about so quietly nowadays, and why don't you run the way you used to?"