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And here he stopped, as if pained by some recollection; after a

moment's silence, he filled a plate with meat from the table, and

adding a loaf of bread to it, tied up the whole in a napkin.

"Take that," said he to the oldest of the children, and putting

in her other hand a bottle of wine, "carry that to the widow

Martha, and tell her to feast with her children. But be very

careful what you say to her, don't seem to be doing a charity,

and don't say a word of it, should you meet any one; and take

care not to break any thing."