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without it was a house of correction. What is the box anyway and [[insert]]where did it come from[[/insert]] what is it doing here at this time of night.  "Came from Providence" [[strikethrough]]Providence![[/strikethrough]] Flowers it was for [[insert]] my [[insert]] poor old lady who died the day before & was to be buried the following noon.  beautiful flowers but I wish you could have seen the size of the box ". "You may as well put it in this way I said through the window"  And without waiting a moment for me to prepare, up came this great shadow of a thing bang against the screen.  As large, well surely as large as this table and just about as good a shape. "Mercy I said" and I wonder really the screen did not give way, do wait an instant [[strikethrough]]& put[[/strikethrough]] until I [[strikethrough]] move [[/strikethrough]] open this other window, and I pushed it up and in came this great structure and I shouldered it along, nothing else to do but

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find a spot big enough and then I slept with it all night but I was indignant! I asked the fellow after we did at last get it through the window "What in the world do you mean by bringing in this thing, in the middle of the night!"  "Well it was perishable" he said.  "Perishable!! and I put up my hand as I felt the cold coming in on me, to draw my afgan closer and "No afgan It had just slipped onto the floor as I moved to open the other window and then I was in me nightdress talking to this young chap as airy as you please!  And [[strikethrough]] not even[[/strikethrough]] I never button the three top buttons!  So there I was!  And this large box on the floor."  Well just you think of it

"Am I shouting all the time?"  I really wonder at it if I don't for certainly, what with the cook and second girl - both deaf - and the