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1 When my sister found that Biddy was very quick to understand her, this mysterious sign reappeared on the slate.
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2 "I should like to be," said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.
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3 One night I was sitting in the chimney corner with my slate, expending great efforts on the production of a letter to Joe.
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4 The old Battery out on the marshes was our place of study, and a broken slate and a short piece of slate-pencil were our educational implements: to which Joe always added a pipe of tobacco.
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5 When, at last, she came round so far as to be helped down stairs, it was still necessary to keep my slate always by her, that she might indicate in writing what she could not indicate in speech.
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6 After that day, a day rarely passed without her drawing the hammer on her slate, and without Orlick's slouching in and standing doggedly before her, as if he knew no more than I did what to make of it.
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7 Again and again and again, my sister had traced upon the slate, a character that looked like a curious T, and then with the utmost eagerness had called our attention to it as something she particularly wanted.
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