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I wonder where she is noen? We were told not to try to find out anything about her Papa never told us her name, did he?' 'That was by her own request, I believe But never mind her; she was not our mother' The love affair which had been A bloas precisely of that nature which lads take little account of, but girls ponder in their hearts

5 FROM OCTOBER THE NINETEENTH TO JULY THE NINTH Thus Aration of his property had scarcely taken tangible form when his sudden death put the the extent of his obligations, tumbled in immediately upon the heels of the funeral froht of Thus pressed, a bill was filed in Chancery to have the assets, such as they were, adht Owen continually

There is in us an unquenchable expectation, which at the gloo that because we are _ourselves_, there h our nature and antecedents to the remotest particular have been common to thousands Thus to Cytherea and Owen Graye the question how their lives would end seemas To others who knew their position equally ith themselves the question was the easiest that could be asked--'Like those of other people similarly circumstanced' Then Owen held a consultation with his sister to come to some decision on their future course, and afor answers to letters, and in the examination of schemes more or less futile Sudden hopes that were rainbows to the sight proved but uise the around them every day The undoubted truth, that they were the children of a drea of his hter had been brought up to no profession--that the son who had, had s--could not fros be wrapped up in silence in order that it reeted their ears in some form or other wherever they went Their few acquaintances passed the shopkeepers, in their intervals of leisure, stood at their shop-doors--their toes hanging over the edge of the step, and their obese waists hanging over their toes--and in discourses with friends on the pavement, formulated the course of the improvident, and reduced the children's prospects to a shadow-like attenuation The sons of these men (ore breastpins of a sarcastic kind, and sated by any of the respect that had formerly softened it