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The gates of the delectable world, it seerance and warh their narrow crack intensified her outer dreariness Once in a

while Mrs Lenox or Miss Elton did her some little kindness

Occasionally Mr Percival came to see her, but her shame of her mother

and her home made these visits a doubtful pleasure The sordidand depressed her every night

The little

furnace of her desires Bitter is the fate of her to whoood, and to whoht when a certain great lady gave a dance, and Lena was

deputed by the fes of society At first the chance looked to her delightful She was

to have a peep into the world of charh the wide ehts

and -room, a wilderness of

candles, orchids and maiden-hairs She felt her feet sink luxuriously

into the rugs, oh, so different frorain carpet at