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Martha

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Mar·tha  (märth)
In the New Testament, the sister of Lazarus and Mary and a friend of Jesus.


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The woman, Martha Pierson, was somewhat above thirty, thin and pale, as a Shaker sister almost invariably is, and not entirely free from that corpse-like appearance which the garb of the sisterhood is so well calculated to impart.
"That's because tha'rt not used to it," Martha said, going back to her hearth.
And Martha warn't as late last Christmas Day by half-an-hour.
 
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