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She stopped for afloor, and shook off, with out a shudder, the hideous things

that crawled over her rich dress She had scarcely looked at Sir Nor for the his eyes froely like her story was to Leoline's--both shut in and isolated

from the outer world Verily, destiny seemed to have woven the woof and

warp of their fates wonderfully together, for their lives were as

shook off her crawling

acquaintances, watched the the foul floor in the

darkness, and went o when I was fifteen years old, as I told you,

that a change took place in my life Up to that tiuardian, and did not trouble reat deal froether; and I remember I used to envy the

freedom hich he came and went, far more than I ever wondered where

he spent his precious tied to

the honorable profession of highway when

travelers were few and money scarce He was then, and is still, at

the head of a for, over whom he wieldsthe brief and pleasant

period of your acquaintance"

"Really, madam, it struck me that your authority over them was much more