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"We must go to Mrs. Ray; she'll be lonely, poor old thing," said
Rotha, drying Liza's eyes; "besides, she hasn't had her supper, you
know."
The girls left the dairy, where the churning had made small progress
as yet, and went through the kitchen towards the room where the Dame
of Shoulthwaite lay in that long silence which had begun sooner with
her than with others.
As they passed towards the invalid's room, Mrs. Garth came in at the
porch. It was that lady's first visit for years, and her advent on
this occasion seemed to the girls to forebode some ill. But her manner
had undergone an extraordinary transformation. Her spiteful tone was
gone, and the look of sourness, which had often suggested to Liza her
affinity to the plums that grew in her own garden, had given place to
what seemed to be a look of extreme benevolence.
"It's slashy and cold, but I've come to see my old neighbor," she
said. "I'm sure I've suffered lang and sair ower her affliction, poor
body."
Without much show of welcome from Rotha, the three women went into
Mrs.


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