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In the year 1861 his wife died, leaving him a ith two children The elder, a son named Owen, now just turned seventeen, was taken from school, and initiated as pupil to the profession of architect in his father's office The rehter, and Owen's junior by a year

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3 OCTOBER THE TWELFTH, 1863 We pass over two years in order to reach the next cardinal event of these persons' lives The scene is still the Grayes' native town of Hocbridge, but as it appeared on a Monday afternoon in the month of October

The weather was sunny and dry, but the ancient borough was to be seen wearing one of its least attractive aspects First on account of the tinant hour of the twenty-four when the practical garishness of Day, having escaped fro, has not yetthose race its decline Next, it was that stage in the progress of the hen business--which, carried on under the gables of an old country place, is not devoid of a rouished Lastly, the toas intentionally bent upon being attractive by exhibiting to an influx of visitors the local talent for dra to be lively are the dullest of dull things

Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interestnative peculiarities unconscious of beholders Discovering the by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them

The weather-stained clock-face in the low church tower standing at the intersection of the three chief streets was expressing half-past two to the Town Hall opposite, where the in The doors were open, and those persons who had already asse the entrance of the new-coenuineness of their teeth and hair--esti these later ones calowed aht-red poppy in a field of brown stubble She wore an elegant dark jacket, lavender dress, hat with grey strings and trihtly walked up the side passage of the roolance around, and entered the seat pointed out to her

The young girl was Cytherea Graye; her age was now about eighteen