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"The picture, Wilford--you have forgotten that," Katy called after hi down the stairs

Wilford would rather have been with her when she first looked upon Genevra, but there was not ti his private drawer he carried the case to Katy's roo to her: "I would not ht Try and sleep a while You need the rest so much"

Katy knew she had the whole day before her in which to investigate the face of one who once had filled her place, and so she nestled down a her pillows, and soon fell into a quiet sleep, from which Esther, who looked in upon her several ti her breakfast to her roo to arrange the matted curls, which were finally confined in a net until Esther's more practiced hands were ready to attack them

And all this while the picture lay upon the bureau--the square, old-fashioned daguerreotype, which Katy shrank fro

"I'll wait till after breakfast," she said; then as the thought came over her that if the face proved as beautiful as Wilford had described, she in her present forlorn condition would feel the contrast deeply, she said, "I'll wait till Esther has fixeddid not occupy her long, and Esther soon was busy with her toilet, co a plain dress of rich bombazine, with fresh bands of white crape, as had been worn the previous day Katy's toilet was complete at last, and as Esther closed the door behind her, Katy, with a tre hand, took from the drahere she had hid it from Esther's eyes, the picture of Genevra Lambert