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dare ask such a thing of old Colonel Shuttle worth's
daughter.”

Master Torrey smiled to himself as he thought
of the silent, stately Anna standing as a model in
the rude shop.

t( But I’ ll give the figure a look like Anna Jane,
if I can," pursued Job. “ To my mind, she’s a

great deal more like some such thing than she is
like a real flesh-and-blood woman,"

To this Master Torrey made no answer, but
smiled at the old man’s folly, and passed into the
street without even asking what would be the price

of the wooden sea-nymph.