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A shaving-glass was taken down from a nail, laid on its back in the middle of a table by the , and the hair spread carefully out upon it The pair then bent over the table froe, their hands supporting their heads, their foreheads nearly touching, and their eyes upon the hair

'He ha' been mad a'ter my lady Cytherea,' said Mrs Crickett, 'and 'tis my very belief the hair is--' 'No 'tidn' Hers idn' so dark as that,' said Elizabeth

'Elizabeth, you know that as the faithful wife of a servant of the Church, I should be glad to think as you do about the girl Mind I don't wish to say anything against Miss Graye, but this I do say, that I believe her to be a naht to stick a moral clock in her face, and deceive the country in such a way If she wasn't of a bad stock at the outset she was bad in the planten, and if she wasn't bad in the planten, she was bad in the growen, and if not in the growen, she's h since' 'But I have another reason for knowing it idn' hers,' said Mrs

Leat

'Ah! I knohose it is then--Miss Aldclyffe's, upon !' ''Tis the colour of hers, but I don't believe it to be hers either' 'Don't you believe what they d' say about her and him?' 'I say nothen about that; but you don't knohat I know about his letters' 'What about 'em?' 'He d' post all his letters here except those for one person, and they he d' take to Budmouth My son is in Budmouth Post Office, as you know, and as he d' sit at desk he can see over the blind of theall the people who d' post letters Mr Manston d' unvariably go there wi' letters for that person; h now' 'Is it a she?' ''Tis a she' 'What's her name?' 'The little stunpoll of a fellow couldn't call to mind more than that 'tis Miss Somebody, of London However, that's the woman who ha' been here, depend upon't--a wicked one--some poor street-wench escaped from Sodoly' 'That may be' 'No, no, Mrs Leat, this is clear to ht--whenever she came or wherever she vanished Do you think he would ha' let a o away how she would, without breakfast or help of any kind?' Elizabeth shook her head--Mrs Crickett looked at her solemnly