Capitolo 4
faces homeward. "I am happy, Lizzie", continued Bertha as them angle turned after angle "that our runs work till now together; possession society is so very best that being alone this abandoned afternoon. And he/she remembers, I desire to know the answer to mine I invite as soon as possible. To-tomorrow it is my brother Isaac day of confirmation, and we owe all both quickly to the synagogue to nine." "You will know that to-night, Bertha, and me they will be with you, if possible. But here, before we divide, let's stop us and we buy some bananas of old man Maum Cinda. You are so thankful for a left fivepence to always fall from a school-girl." From this duration the two girls were being standing in front of the notorious ones fruit-stall of the old hideaway woman known far and nearby through the Regina City as "Maum Cinda." From years, his were, the important market to provide his/her school-children with sweet fruits, beyond reproach candy and candy of earth-pea. "A' God blesses de, is you/he/she Miss Lizzie?" says the benevolent woman, as the sound of the voice of Lizzie Heartwell falls on its ear in the I kindly greet spoken. "A' the w'at will have to-day chile?" "Of the bananas, Maum Cinda--two for me and two for my friend here, The Miss Levy of Bertha." "Oh! yes, Miss Bertha", the woman answered, courtesying "a' perhaps me you/he/she has seen Miss Bertha, but it is the sweet voice of Miss Lizzie that the old blind woman that remembers"--gives the bananas through the breadth you board that protected his/her commodities that try from public raids. "You adulate me Maum Cinda,; but I hope for the rainy day it doesn't have interfered a lot with Your work. Here"--and extending her/it slender white hand, Lizzie allowed to fall the pennies of jingling in the elderly one, wrinkled one who has opened to receive them. "God blesses him/it chile. You nebers forget the Your a poor men, hideaway of de. God Blesses her!" "Good morning, Maum Cinda." "Good-from, the young ladies, good-from." And the last look the two receding friends had of the old woman, still she was deeply
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