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"Scorn not the s ennoble it ever,

Droop not o'er efforts expended in vain,

Work, as believing, that labour is gain"

Queen Isabel, &c by S M

The sturdy recusant against Myrtlewood croquet continued to be Rachel

Curtis, and yet it was not a testiame so much as real

want of time for it She was always full of occupation, even while her

active mind craved for more definite and extended labour; and when she

cay, it was always either with some business

before her, or else so late that the cha the battle to an end

If there had been a will there would have been a way, but, as she said,

she saw enough to perceive that proficiency could only be attained at

the cost of much time and study, and she did not choose to be inferior

and mediocre Also, she found occupations open to her elsewhere that

had long been closed or rendered unpleasant Mr Touchett had beco of late, as if the lawn tactics

absorbed his propensities for offence and defence, he really seeed for one or two bits of parish work that she attended to;

finding that between hi

o over the