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Marian did not, and assured on that point, Katy went back to the far nu to the business which had brought her to Marian's room

There were perceptible spots on Marian's neck, and her lips were very white, while her hands grasped the bundles tossed into her lap--the yards and yards of lace and embroidery, linen, and cambric, which she was expected to make for the wife of Wilford Cameron; and her voice was husky as she asked directions or estions of her own

"It's because she has no such joy in expectation I should feel so, too, if I were thirty and unitation, and tried to divert herher as delicately as possible that she had brought with her sundry stores of which she had such an abundance

"I knew you were not an object of charity," she said, as she saw the flush on Marian's brow, "but when I have so much I like to share it with others, and you seem like our folks"

"Did Wilf--did Mr Cameron know?" Marian asked, and Katy answered "No; but it does not reatest pleasure I have is giving You are not offended?" she continued, as she saw a tear drop from Marian's eyelids

"No--oh, no," and Marian quietly laid aside the packages which would find their way topoverty had its abode

It would choke her to eat whatever cah she did say: "I will keep these because you brought theain There arein Silverton I shall not suffer so long as my health is spared"

Then after a fewthe work, about which she could now talk calmly, she asked where Katy hen she was abroad, her blue eyes growing almost black as Katy talked of Rome, of Venice, of Paris, and then of Alnwick, where they had stopped so long

"By the way, you were born in England? Were you ever at Alnwick?" Katy asked, and Marian replied: "Once, yes I've seen the castle and the church Did you go there--to St Mary's, I mean?"

"Oh, yes, and I was never tired of that old churchyard, Wilford liked it, too, and andered by the hour araves and quaint headstones"