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before, and were never weary of talking of the beautiful woman as

not afraid to wear her pretty clothes into their wretched houses, which,

lest she should soil and defile therew more clean and tidy

for her sake

"It wasn't for the likes of theet O'Donohue said, and so, on the days when Daisy was expected, she

scrubbed the floor, which, until Daisy's advent had not knoater for

years, and rubbed and polished the one wooden chair kept sacred for the

lady's use

Other woht Biddy's spirit and scrubbed their floors and

their children's faces on the day when Miss McDonald was expected to

call, and when she came her silk dress and pretty shaatched

narrowly lest by some chance a speck of dirt should fasten on the dress and handsome face were commented on and re Especially did the

children like her in her bright dress, and the velvet and ermine in

which she was clad when Guy met her in the Park orn aze of those to whos were no novelties

To Guy she looked more beautiful than he had ever seen her before, and

there was in his heart a s

lost, as her carriage disappeared froht of the

fair face and form which had once been his own