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Chapter VI.
Caught.
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HEN Nattie fled out of the kitchen, she had no definite aim beyond secluding herself for a time, so as to stir up anxiety at home, and give those against whom her anger was hot, the trouble of searching for her.
Her chief desire was to inflict pain on her sister, for having reproved her for the disobedient conduct which brought renewed illness to her mother. Her sister's husband also was an object of dislike, because he always frowned on and corrected her outbursts of temper and selfish propensities. She
