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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
Playwright
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Boys
Wished
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Moor
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Moors
Common
Clothes
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