1 "I see tha's got back," he said.
2 "He's got a crooked back," she said.
3 "That's because tha'rt not used to it," Martha said, going back to her hearth.
4 And it got to like him so it follows him about an it lets him get on its back.
5 "If they wouldn't be so frightened I would take them back with me," said Mary.
6 But the robin seemed to be quite satisfied and chirped and whistled back at her.
7 The old gardener pushed his cap back on his bald head and stared at her a minute.
8 He looked tired and troubled, but when he saw her he was so startled that he almost jumped back.
9 She had wandered about long enough to feel too tired to wander any farther, and she turned back.
10 She walked back into the first kitchen-garden she had entered and found the old man digging there.
11 She put her hand accidentally upon the tapestry near her, and then sprang back, feeling quite startled.
12 "I don't believe you," said Mary; and she turned her back and stuck her fingers in her ears, because she would not listen any more.
13 She sat up on her heels again and rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand as if puzzled for a moment, but she ended quite positively.
14 She ran only to make herself warm, and she hated the wind which rushed at her face and roared and held her back as if it were some giant she could not see.
15 She did not care very much about the library itself, because she had read very few books; but to hear of it brought back to her mind the hundred rooms with closed doors.
16 Very soon it made her intensely drowsy, and she went back to her nursery and shut herself in again, frightened by cries she heard in the huts and by the hurrying sound of feet.
17 Once she crept into the dining-room and found it empty, though a partly finished meal was on the table and chairs and plates looked as if they had been hastily pushed back when the diners rose suddenly for some reason.
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