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take my leave of your house for ever; but before I go, permit me to say that you act in a very wrong manner, and will certainly feel the ill effects of your injustice to your fellow-creatures, in thus robbing them of the love you owe them, to lavish it away on those animals, which are really sufferers by your kindness."
At this instant the footman entered to inform Mrs. Benson that her servant was come; on which, accompanied by her daughter, she without further ceremony left Mrs. Addis to compose herself as she could.
