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". they are what their birth / And breeding suffer them to be -- / Wild outcasts of society. " / _Gypsies_ -- WORDSWORTH.
Miss Mitten, the young governess, had not yet come when the children got to the nursery, though all was in order for her -- the table cleared, the three chairs set round it ready. There was nothing to do but to get out the books and slates. Duke went to the window and stood there staring out silently; Pamela, who always liked to be busy, dragged forward a chair, meaning to climb on to it so as to reach up to the high shelf where the lesson things were kept. But, as she drew out the chair, something that had been hidden from view in a corner near which stood a small side-table caught her eye. She let go the chair, stooping down to examine this something, and in a moment a cry escaped her.