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eyes beareat Alexander has biddento Rachel as she departed,

"that it was all her fault Pray be patient with her, she has had es"

His incomprehensible irony had so often perplexed Rachel, that she did

not knohether his serious apologetic tone were raciously, "Oh, never nify" And at the saent entreaty froa that partnership with hiiveness Aunt

Rachel had won by the rescue of Don

Grace readily yielded, but Rachel pleaded her engageible Bessie declared that they perfectly understood that nothing

could compete with the sketch of the Spinster's Needles, she answered,

"I promised to write a letter for ain," she explained, to add further conviction

"A business-like transaction indeed!" exclaimed Bessie, much diverted

with the na poor children," said

Rachel "It was left by a Curtis o, in trust to the

rector of the parish and the lord of the manor; and poor Mr Linton is

so entirely effete, that it is virtually in our hands It is one of the

vexations of ood cannot be done with it, for the fees