“Ah! Miss Woodhouse, how kind you are!⁠—I suppose you have heard⁠—and are come to give us joy. This does not seem much like joy, indeed, in me⁠—(twinkling away a tear or two)⁠—but it will be very trying for us to part with her, after having had her so long, and she has a dreadful headache just now, writing all the morning:⁠—such long letters, you know, to be written to Colonel Campbell, and Mrs.

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