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Yes, it ell for Nell that she had no time to dwell upon her heart's

loss; and yet she found some minutes for that "Sorrow's crown of

sorrow," the remembrance of happier days, as she leaned over her black

lace bodice that night when the great house was silent, and the quiet

room was filled with visions of Shorne Mills--visions in which Drake,

the lover who had left her for Lady Luce, was the principal figure

On the night of the big dinner party, she, having had the last

consultation with Mrs Hubbard and the butler, went downstairs The vast

drawing-roo at

the clock rather anxiously--for it was quite on the cards that Lady

Wolfer would be late, and that souests would arrive before

the hostess was ready to receive them--when the door opened and her

ladyship entered She was handsomely dressed, and wore the family

diamonds, and Nell, who had not before seen her so richly attired and

bejeweled, was about to express her admiration, when Lady Wolfer stopped

short and surveyed the sliure of her "housekeeper companion" with

widely opened eyes and a smile of surprise and friendly approval