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No pen, however eloquent, can describe the weariness of the hours for

Nell which had passed since "Mr Drake Vernon" had left Shorne Mills

Soone out of her life The sun was shining

as brightly, there was the sa tide; every one was as kind to her as they had been before he

left, and yet all life see upon

mamma she wandered about Shorne Mills, sailed in the _Annie Laurie_, and

so, and the

lack of it ht of hiht she tossed in her little bed sleeplessly, recalling the happy

hours she had spent with hiet him, to

be just the same, to feel just the same, as she had been before he had

been thrown at her feet But she could not He had entered into her life

and become a principal part of it, absorbed it She found herself

thinking of hirew thin and pale in an

incredibly short time Even Dick himself could not rouse her; and Mrs

Lorton read her a severe lecture upon the apathy of indolence

Life had been so joyous and so all-sufficing a thing for her; but now

nothing see pain in her