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hen two days had gone by, she began
to feel terrible hunger pangs and
couldn’t think of what to do. Then
she pulled one of the stays out of her
corset and x began digging a hole in the wall. She
dug and dug, and after twentyfour hours she saw
a glimmer of daylight that cheered her up. So she
widened the opening and looked out. It just so
happened that her father’s clerk, Don Tommaso,
was walking past that spot, and she called out:
- DonTommaso, DonTommaso!
The man couldn’t figure out how this voice could
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