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There had been ordered for her a hood of golden tissue, ide and long

streamers to be tied beneath the chin, and she was co had it all but ready,--there was only the least bit of

stitchery; would Mistress Evelyn condescend to wait a very few minutes?

She placed a chair, and the lady sank into it, finding the quiet of the

shadowed rooht and talkativeness of the

world without Mistress Stagg, in her role of auzy

trifle, called by courtesy a hood, to the farthest , and fell

busily to work

It seerow more and more quiet in the room: the shadow of the

leaves lay still upon the floor; the drowsy hu of the bees outside

the s, the sound of locusts in the trees, the distant noises of the

town,--all grew more remote, then suddenly appeared to cease

Audrey raised her eyes, and met the eyes of Evelyn She knew that they had

been upon her for a long time, in the quiet of the room She had sat

breathless, her head bowed over her work that lay idly in her lap, but at

last she azed at each other with a sorrowful