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1  'No, no, no,' said Miss Betsey.
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2  'Now you see her,' said Miss Betsey.
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3  'Of course it will,' said Miss Betsey.
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4  My father and Miss Betsey never met again.
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5  There must be no mistakes in life with THIS Betsey Trotwood.
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6  'You were speaking about its being a girl,' said Miss Betsey.
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7  My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it was Miss Betsey.
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8  'I tell you I have a presentiment that it must be a girl,' returned Miss Betsey.
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9  I intend to be her godmother, and I beg you'll call her Betsey Trotwood Copperfield.
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10  These evidences of an incompatibility of temper induced Miss Betsey to pay him off, and effect a separation by mutual consent.
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11  When she came to herself, or when Miss Betsey had restored her, whichever it was, she found the latter standing at the window.
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12  She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday.
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13  'Mrs. David Copperfield, I think,' said Miss Betsey; the emphasis referring, perhaps, to my mother's mourning weeds, and her condition.
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14  Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.
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15  The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way.
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16  There was a twitch of Miss Betsey's head, after each of these sentences, as if her own old wrongs were working within her, and she repressed any plainer reference to them by strong constraint.
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17  In a short pause which ensued, she had a fancy that she felt Miss Betsey touch her hair, and that with no ungentle hand; but, looking at her, in her timid hope, she found that lady sitting with the skirt of her dress tucked up, her hands folded on one knee, and her feet upon the fender, frowning at the fire.
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