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into the verandah, and try to attract Leoline and Hubert after her, but

failing in this, she talked to the farat the hich loved no one but Aunt Erustus, the beloved

taarden Mrs Curtis,

considerate and tender-hearted, startled to find her daughter in the

field, and wishing her niece to begin about her own affairs, talked

co up the tie of the apart-house, the superstructure told of other scenes One end of

the roonified

clergyreater

distance; a beautifully-painted miniature of a lady with short waist and

sraphs over the

e crayon sketch showed three sisters between the

ages of six and sixteen, senti over a flower-basket; a pair

of water-colour drawings represented a handsoallery was coed county-member, the other one of Chalon's ladylike matrons

in watered-silk aprons With soraph, J T Beauchamp, and on the other the inscription, the Lady

Alison Beauchamp The table-cover was of tasteful silk patchwork, the

vase in the centre was of red earthenware, but was encircled with

real ivy leaves gummed on in their freshness, and was filled ild

flowers; books filled every corner; and Rachel felt herself out of the

ion of common-place, but she could not recover from her

surprise at the audacity of such an independent measure on the part of

her cousin; and under cover of her mother's civil talk, said to Fanny,

"I never expected to see you here"