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high oaken mantel-piece Anna had dressed for tea with more than usual

care on this particular Saturday afternoon She wore a si in rich folds about her

exquisite figure, that hteen, were it not for the long slender throat and tapering waist of

h on top of the shapely head, and a few

tendrils strayed about her neck and brow She wore no ornareat leather chair, in front of the open fire,

playing with a white angora kitten, who clienerally conducted himself like a white ball of animated yarn It was

too bad that there was no painter at hand to transfer to canvas so

lovely a picture as this girl in her white frock ht in thiswith a white imp of a

kitten It would have made an ideal study in white and scarlet

How comfortable it all was; the book-lined walls, the repose and

dignity of this beautiful ho to htest wants The secure and sheltered

feeling that it gave appealed strongly to the girl, who but a little

while ago had enjoyed sis in her father's house

And then, there had been that awful day when her father's wealth had

vanished into air like a burst bubble, and he had coain to rise from it