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1  "Now and then," said Miss Pross.
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2  "Nothing to boast of," said Miss Pross.
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3  And it's really very hard, said Miss Pross.
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4  "Can't be helped," said Miss Pross, shaking her head.
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5  Really, is bad enough," returned Miss Pross, "but better.
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6  However, father and daughter did at last appear, and Miss Pross was ready at the street door to receive them.
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7  "All sorts of people who are not in the least degree worthy of the pet, are always turning up," said Miss Pross.
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8  "I don't want dozens of people who are not at all worthy of Ladybird, to come here looking after her," said Miss Pross.
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9  But, no Hundreds of people came to see the sights, and Mr. Lorry looked in vain for the fulfilment of Miss Pross's prediction.
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10  Yet, a doubt lurks in my mind, Miss Pross, whether it is good for Doctor Manette to have that suppression always shut up within him.
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11  In the arrangements of the little household, Miss Pross took charge of the lower regions, and always acquitted herself marvellously.
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12  Possibly at home, but of a certainty impossible for handmaid to anticipate intentions of Miss Pross, as to admission or denial of the fact.
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13  It proceeded from Miss Pross, the wild red woman, strong of hand, whose acquaintance he had first made at the Royal George Hotel at Dover, and had since improved.
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14  The Doctor was a pleasant sight too, looking on at them, and telling Miss Pross how she spoilt Lucie, in accents and with eyes that had as much spoiling in them as Miss Pross had, and would have had more if it were possible.
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15  Notwithstanding Miss Pross's denial of her own imagination, there was a perception of the pain of being monotonously haunted by one sad idea, in her repetition of the phrase, walking up and down, which testified to her possessing such a thing.
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16  Her darling was a pleasant sight too, embracing her and thanking her, and protesting against her taking so much trouble for her--which last she only dared to do playfully, or Miss Pross, sorely hurt, would have retired to her own chamber and cried.
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17  Here again: Mr. Lorry's inquiries into Miss Pross's personal history had established the fact that her brother Solomon was a heartless scoundrel who had stripped her of everything she possessed, as a stake to speculate with, and had abandoned her in her poverty for evermore, with no touch of compunction.
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