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"What do you mean by subtracted some?"
"Now, Azalea, there's no use in your acting like that! You know / perfectly well you can't fool _me_! If you really want to know what I / mean, I'll tell you. I mean that you picked out two stitches from the / eight to make it look like a six. Didn't you, now?"