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Perhaps less than diplomatically, Wordsworth probes this information further, questioning the girl’s logic. The girl lives with her mother in the cottage of the churchyard. And two others, the girl’s brother and sister, are in the churchyard, so are dead. Conwy, in north Wales, and two have gone away to sea, presumably as sailors. in total.īut when Wordsworth asks for more details (which is rather nosy of him – one wonders what a child would do these days if a strange man started expressing such an interest in her life), she answers that two ‘dwell’ or live ‘at Conway’, i.e. How many of them are there in her family? The girl replies that there are seven of them ‘in all’, i.e. Wordsworth asks the little girl about her family.
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