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as she could be heard, she cried in a strangely thrilling voice, which 

 echoed through the dusky room : " How can you waste the one day 

 of the year for us in such foolishness, when the life of a race is in 

 jeopardy? Get to work! We must learn first to help ourselves, 

 if we want God to help us! " 



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Hardly had this woman finished speaking when it was seen that 

 another woman had risen and was waiting for a chance to make 

 herself heard. I think I never saw a more pitiful figure. Very 

 black, old, with a gaunt form on which a shabby dress hung loosely, 

 her face was that of a person for whom life had been so hard that 

 hope was for her a word unknown. Two or three men in the audi- 



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