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Miss Scatcherd hits me to improve me.
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She's tormented by my faults.
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If she hit me, I'd get that birch
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and break it under her nose.
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She'd find another soon enough.
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My father used to preach that life's too short
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to spend in nursing animosity.
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At my aunt's house, I was solitary and despised.
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She thought I could do without one bit of love or kindness.
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You are loved.
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There's an invisible world all around you,
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a kingdom of spirits commissioned to guard you, Jane.