`` It does seem most too pretty to bury , does n't it ? Mind you see that it is fixed nice when I 'm laid out . Comb it right up on my head and braid it there . '' A sound , such as might be wrung from a suffering animal , came from the girl , but at the same moment the door opened and a woman entered . `` Chris , '' she said sharply , `` you get right off for the cows , you lazy little scamp ! You knew right well you had to go for them , and here you 've been idling , and me looking high and low for you . Make haste now ; it 's ridiculous late . '' The boy pulled in his head and scowled at his aunt , but he dared not disobey , and went out slowly with a sulky mutter . His aunt subdued a movement , that might have developed into a sound box on his ears , with a rather frightened glance at the bed . Naomi Holland was spent and dying , but her temper was still a thing to hold in dread , and her sister-in-law did not choose to rouse it by slapping Christopher . To her and her co-nurse the spasms of rage , which the sick woman sometimes had , seemed to partake of the nature of devil possession . The last one , only three days before , had been provoked by Christopher 's complaint of some real or fancied ill-treatment from his aunt , and the latter had no mind to bring on another . She went over to the bed , and straightened the clothes . `` Sarah and I are going out to milk , Naomi , Eunice will stay with you . She can run for us if you feel another spell coming on . '' Naomi Holland looked up at her sister-in-law with something like malicious enjoyment . `` I ai n't going to have any more spells , Car ` line Anne . I 'm going to die to-night . But you need n't hurry milking for that , at all . I 'll take my time . ''
She liked XXXXX see the alarm that came over the other woman 's face .
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