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<font size="1" > How astonished she would be, when she supposed they were both soundly asleep!IT was bright and beautiful all day, and then, when no one could possibly wait any longer, it was Christmas evening.</font>
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In the following pages, however, I have not confined myself to this, but have allowed my memory to carry me back to the days when I was a young man, and to speak of Mississippi life as it then was.
But he had forgotten to take into account the public impatience; and it was with no pleasant countenance that he watched the population of Tampa Town gathering under his windows.
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