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`` Mrs. Lovel then bade Marten fetch himself a chair , and they both sat down to breakfast . Marten behaved so well at breakfast that Mrs. Lovel invited him to come to her at dinner-time , and said she would send Hannah to his master for leave . She then put on his dry shoes and stockings ; and as the bell rang , she sent him over to school . When school broke up at twelve o'clock , she sent Hannah again for him ; and he came running upstairs , full of joy . '' ` This is a half-holiday , ma'am , ' he said , ` and I may stay with you till bed-time : and I will come again to breakfast in the morning . ' '' ` Very well , ' said Mrs. Lovel ; ` but if you come here so often you must do everything I bid you , and everything which Hannah bids you . ' '' ` The same as I did to my poor mother , and to Susan ? '