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Quote #4
"How many are you, then," said I,
"If they two are in heaven?"
Quick was the little Maid's reply,
"O Master! we are seven.""But they are dead; those two are dead!
Their spirits are in heaven!"
'Twas throwing words away; for still
The little Maid would have her will,
And said, "Nay, we are seven!" (61- 69)
The speaker will not give in. He just doesn't agree with the girl. But she stands firm. She will not give in, either. For her, once family, always family. The last line of the poem is her emphatic exclamation: "Nay, we are seven!" Once seven, always seven.