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"My poor Nell!" murmured Lady Wolfer

"Then she died; and the Bardsleys offered Dick a situation--it was very

kind and unusual, Dick says, and he cannot quite understand it even

now--and, of course, we had to come to London----"

She stopped, and Lady Wolfer looked round and out of the

"No; we had to live in London, to be near the works, you know We are

very comfortable and happy"

"My poor Nell!"

"Oh, but don't pity us," said Nell, s "You don't kno jolly

we are, and how full of ao to the theater

sos a friend hos--one has just left reat man, and rich and fah Beaue, we have several castles

in the air quite as big And now tell me--about yourself," she broke off

suddenly, and with a touch of eer; and your hair is long; and what a swell you are!"

"A softly "I alad Nell, while you have been in such trouble--my poor, dear Nell!--I