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Rather against Grace's feeling, Rachel drew her on, so as to come up

with Lady Temple and her friend in the midst of their conversation, and

they heard the last words-"Then you will give reatest kindness--"

"Oh, Grace, Rachel, is it you?" exclaimed Fanny "You have notindeed were both face and figure, fair and pale, and though

there was a ht and silky as to be scarcely

visible; the hair, too, was almost flaxen, and the whole complexion had

a washed-out appearance The eyes, indeed, were of the same peculiar

deep blue as the Colonel's, but even these were little seen under their

heavy sleepy lids, and the long liht and slowness, the very sight of which fretted Rachel, andto shake him It appeared that he was come to spend the Sunday

at Avonmouth, and Grace tried to extract the coentlemen were better than one, and Fanny need not be on their arden-chairs on the lawn invited repose, and there the

ladies seated the down her heavy crape bonnet,

and showing her pretty little delicate face, now h her wide-spreading black draperies

gave a certain dignity to her slight figure, contrasting with the summer

muslins of her two cousins; as did her hot-house plant fairness, with