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Excerpt from Three Girls and a Hermit Biddy, the old-shawled, check-aproned servant, adored them too deeply to say anything now. She had slaved for them without grudging, and kept house now with a stern refusal to try the strange new dishes which Moira would have had. Biddy held her trio in check when they would have worked havoc in the kitchen; but their hearts yearned for change. Sitting in the garden or gathered round the peat fire in the chilly evenings, their tongues clacked noisily as they whipped themselves on to a deed which savoured, none too faintly, of folly. If they could live alone here, why not elsewhere? Mrs. Desmond, the clergyman's wife, on being con sulted, had nervously murmured there could not be much difference. They were talking of it now, and Biddy baking bread for tea, listened with growing uneasiness. Moira, the second girl, paced up and down the little garden talking loudly, while Eva and little quiet Kathleen hung upon her words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.