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"I have no change; I never bring change out with me."
"You're goin' to Mr. Goodwin's, ma'am?"
"Yes; are he and Mrs. Goodwin at home, can you tell me?"
"They are, ma'am, but you may as well go back again; you'll have no luck
this day."
"Why so?"
"Why, bekaise you won't; didn't you meet me? Who ever has luck that
meets me? Nobody ought to know that betther than yourself, for, by all
accounts, you're tarred wid the same stick."
"Foolish woman," replied Mrs. Lindsay, "how is it in your power to
prevent me?"
"No matther," replied the woman; "go an; but mark my words, you'll have
your journey for nuttin', whatever it is. Indeed, if I turned back three
steps wid you it might be otherwise, but you refused to cross my hand,
so you must take your luck," and with a frightful glance from the eye
aforesaid, she passed on.
As she drove up to Mr. Goodwin's residence she was met on the steps of
the hall-door by that kind-hearted gentleman and his wife, and received
with a feeling of gratification which the good people could not
disguise.
"I suppose," said Mrs.


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