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"He knocks as if he had a right to co of?--It sworth!"

Hereupon I went to the door, unbolted, and flung it wide open There,

sure enough, stood Hollingsworth, his shaggy greatcoat all covered with

snow, so that he looked quite as ish hospitality this!" said he, in those deep tones of his, which

seemed to come out of a chest as capacious as a barrel "It would have

served you right if I had lain down and spent the night on the

doorstep, just for the sake of putting you to shauest ill need a waron in which he had journeyed hither,

Hollingsworth received into his arure enveloped in a cloak It was evidently a wo from the ease hich he lifted her, and the little

space which she seeirl As she showed sosworth, with his usual directness and lack of cereed

her forward not hted kitchen

"Who is this?" whispered I, rereatcoat

"Who? Really, I don't know," answered Hollingsworth, looking at s here, however;

and no doubt she had been expected Zenobia, or some of the women

folks, can tell you all about it"

"I think not," said I, glancing towards the new-comer and the other