Text complete: betrix stood again and paced the room without the cane , feeling her way with shuffling footsteps once around the kitchen . then she bumped into kate 's chair . kate had made a show of pushing it in loudly so it should have been next to the table . but here it was , placed quietly and deliberately in the middle of the room for her to stumble over . what a catty , cockroach hull-rotter , that
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