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"Sometimes one scarcely knohom one is connected," she said "If

you will excuse o and see if your roohed plaintively, "and htless"

"She is not the latter, at any rate," he said, but coldly enough "Your

daughter displayed extraordinary presence of ht to explain," broke in Mrs Lorton, who could

not endure the praise of any other than herself "My late husband--I am

a , Mr Vernon--left me his two children as a trust, a sacred

trust, which I hope I have discharged to the best of my ability I will

rejoin you presently"

He rose and bowed, and then leaned back and closed his eyes, and swore

gently but thoroughly

Mrs Lorton returned in a few minutes with Molly

"If you will come now? We have sent for the doctor"

"Thank you, thank you!" he said, and he went upstairs with them; but he

would not permit thee of the bed waiting with a kind of iood luck it was just about the time old Doctor Spenceup to the crossway,

caught hiray cob

"Eh? what is it, ain?" he said, laying his hand on her shoulder "What? Stranger? Broke