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Book, page 101 / 462 close, saving, avaricious disposition. He had heard the housekeeper at the Abbey inquiring, as he passed through the servants, whether there was any lamb to be gotten? She said that Sir Arthur was remarkably fond of lamb, and that she wished she could get a quarter for him. Immediately he sallied into his kitchen, as soon as the idea struck him, and asked a shepherd, who was waiting there, whether he knew of a nice fat lamb to be had anywhere in the neighbourhood. "I know of one," cried Barbara. "Susan Price has a pet lamb that's as fat as fat could be." The attorney easily caught at these words, and speedily devised a scheme for obtaining Susan's lamb for nothing. It would be something strange if an attorney of his talents and standing was not an over-match for Simple Susan. He prowled forth in search of his prey. He found Susan packing up her father's little wardrobe; and when she looked up as she knelt, he saw that she had been in tears. "How is your mother to-day, Susan?" inquired the attorney. "Worse, sir. My father goes to-morrow." "That's a pity." "It can't be helped," said Susan, with a sigh. "It can't be helped--how do you know that?" said Case. "Sir, DEAR sir!" cried she, looking up at him, and a sudden ray of hope beamed in her ingenuous countenance. "And if YOU could help it, Susan?" said he. Susan clasped her hands in silence, more expressive than words. "You CAN help it, Susan." She started up in an ecstasy. "What would you give now to have your father at home for a whole week longer?" "Anything!--but I have nothing." "Yes, but you have, a lamb," said the hard-hearted attorney. "My poor little lamb!" said Susan; "but what can that do?"
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