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Not only Ermine, but other inhabitants of Avonmouth found the world

more flat in his absence Rachel's interest was lessened in her readings

after she had lost the pleasure of discussion, and she asked herself

many times whether the tedium were indeed froreeable companion "I will try myself,"

she said to herself, "if I am heartily interested in my occupations by

the end of the next week, then I shall believeback to her occupations, she was more than ordinarily

sensible of their unsatisfactoriness One change had co for a wider field, as for

power to do the few things within her reach hly Her late

discussions had, as it were, opened a second eye, that sao sides

of questions that she had hitherto thought had only one, and she was

restless and undecided between the for so, for her own dignity and consistency's

sake, that it was not only Colonel Keith's presence which had rendered

this su for her, she thought, in the person of Miss Keith

Judging by the brother, Rachel expected a tall fair dreaht a true appreciation of life and its duties, and

whether the training of this young girl would again afford her food for

eagerness and energy, would, as she said to herself, shohether her

affections were still her own Moreover, there was the great duty of