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This twenty-fifth birthday had long been anticipated as the

turning-point when this subes of acting as well as thinking for herself ought to be

assu to do was her cry, and on this very day that

so the

condition of the ht aladly hailed the prospect of a vocation that ht be

conducted without pain to her mother

Young children of her own class were not exactly what her dream

of usefulness had devised; but she had already a decided theory of

education, and began to read up with all herthe

lead in all the details of house taking, servant hiring, &c, to which

her regular occupations of night school in the evening and reading to

the lacemakers by day, became almost secondary In due tiraphed, a hurried and affectionate note followed,

and, on a bright east-windy afternoon, Rachel Curtis set forth to take

up her ram had announced the arrival of the Voluta, and

the train which would bring the travellers to Avonchester The Hoe was sent to ive her helpless