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nerves all over, with the most miraculously small feet, and costue-eyed, slow-reat white lily turned into a woman I

do not think seriously that Theodora has the slenderest chance of beco

Allan's wife, and, would you believe it, uncle, I am honestly sorry for

her?"

"I believe it, dear, if you say so; but I would not have expected it"

"I cannot help thinking about her I wish I could I have wondered a dozen

times to-day if she knows that she is shut up alone in that nearly empty

house How the storm will beat upon Allan's s all the winter! How

the ill howl around the big, desolate place! And think of the real

Theodora waiting as on that bleak Fife

coast There irl, uncle She was , and to be waited upon hand and

foot Don't you think souls must often wonder at the habitations they find