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I stood for several h the hall below-as far as ions,

I could hear the closing of doors and drawing of bolts

Verily,habits

I opened -case and distributed its contents

on the dressing-table I had carried through all

portraits of randfather, and this I set up

on the ht

as never before how alone I was in the world, and a

need for companionship and sympathy stirred in me

It ith a new and curious interest that I peered

into o fitfully at my father's house; but my father had

displeased him in various ways that I need not recite,

and ement

which I had widened by my own acts