For every time she shouted 'Fire' They only answered 'Little liar' And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.
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To my poor self on my deathbed,And all my dear companions dead,
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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
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