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CHAPTER IV.

THE SPELL.

Mrs. Endorfield's advice was duly followed.

'I be proper sorry that your daughter isn't so well as she might be,' said a Mellstock man to Geoffrey one morning.

'But is there anything in it?' said Geoffrey uneasily. He shifted his hat slightly to the right. 'I can't understand the report. She didn't complain to me at all, when I seed her.'

'No appetite at all, they say.'

Geoffrey called at the school that after-