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On inquiry, it appeared that notice had been given in the one ho her boys in the class-rooement that were sure to happen

wherever poor Mr Touchett was concerned; and both ladies feeling it

easy to overlook for themselves, were thankful that it had not befallen

Rachel Alison Willia it far to walk either to the Homestead

or Myrtlewood before church, proposed to Grace to come home with her, an

offer that was thankfully accepted, with merely the scruple whether she

should disturb the invalid

"Oh, no, it would be a great pleasure; I ale could get e and variety for her on Sunday"

"She is very self-denying to spare you to the school"

"I have often wished to give it up, but she never will let s we can do, and I see besides that it brings

her fresh interests She knows about all my class, and works for them,

and has theh it

leaves her more hours alone with Rose"

"And the Sunday services are too long for her?"

"Not so much that, as that she cannot sit on those narrow benches unless

two are put close together so that she can almost lie, and there is

not rooreatest

deprivation of all"

"It is so sad, and she is so patient and so energetic," said Grace,