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Prompt

i must mention this
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Completion

, for when your uncle comes home, you must be punished: and inside the red-room you will stay till he comes."

"Five o'clock has struck, ma'am," said Bessie.

"Oh, has it? Well, bring me my shawl and bonnet: I must go out for an hour."

And soon the door was locked upon me, and I was left alone in the silent, chill room.

The sun was going down; the sky was growing grey; the wind was beginning to sigh around the house. I grew cold and frightened. I thought of my dead uncle, who had died in that very room, and whose spirit, they said, sometimes came back to see how his little orphan niece was treated. What if he should come now? I tried to be brave, to brush away my tears, and look steadily into the dim corners; but a gleam of light flashed across the wall, and in my terror I rushed to the door and shook the lock with all my strength.

Footsteps came hurriedly up the stairs; the key was turned, and Bessie and the housemaid burst in.

"What is all this noise for?" demanded Bessie, roughly.

"Oh, Bessie, take me out! Let me go into the nursery!" I cried, clinging to her dress.

"Why, what is the matter with the child? She is shaking all over!" said the maid.

Indeed, my terror was so great that I fell to the floor in a fit, and knew nothing more till I woke up, late at night, in my own little bed, with the kind apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, bending over me.

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