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"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;

And let us all to ht after twelve o'clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr

Featherstone's rooh the small hours She

often chose this task, in which she found so the old man's testiness whenever he demanded her

attentions There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly

still, enjoying the outer stillness and the subdued light The red

fire with its gently audible movement seemed like a solemn existence

calmly independent of the petty passions, the i after worthless uncertainties, which were daily hts, and could aht with her hands in her lap; for, having early

had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged

for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and

annoyance at that fact And she had already come to take life very

enerous resolution

not to act the ht have become

cynical if she had not had parents whoratitude within her, which was all the fuller because she

had learned to , as she ont, the scenes of the day, her