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As to her dress, I, little by little, becah, coarse ed foot that peeped aton the hearth) was clad in

a silk so fine that I could catch, through it, the gleam of the

white flesh beneath From this apparent inconsistency I deduced

that she was of educated tastes, but poor--probably a governess,

or,her hands into consideration, with

their long, prehensile fingers, a teacher of

on to explain to myself her present situation as the outcolanced toward

the door, shivered slightly, and reaching her shoes from the

hearth prepared to slip thely

"Yes," she answered

"Listen to the wind!" said I

"It is terribly high"

"And it rains very hard!" said I

"Yes," and she shivered again

"It will be bad travelling for any one to-night," said I

Charmian stared into the fire

"Indeed, it would be ht"

Charmian stared into the fire