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Colonel Keith was the person, however, hom the new comers chiefly

fraternized, and he was a compared with the lanes and alleys of their own district The

schools and cottages seee, the children

so clean, even their fishiness a form of poetical purity, the people

ridiculously well off, and even Mrs Kelland's lace-school a palace of

the free maids that weave their thread with bones Mr Mitchell seee the elbow room, as he talked of the number of cubic

feet that held a dozen of his own parishioners; and needful as the

change had been for the health of both husband and wife, they al fled and left soupon impossible castles for the importation of

favourite patients to enjoy the balmy breezes of Avonmouth

Rachel talked to thehted by the

flush of eager interest on Mrs Mitchell's thin face "Objects" swars per week to come

from? At any rate Mr Mitchell would, the first leisure day, come over

to St Herbert's with her, and inspect He did not fly off at the first

hint of Mr Mauleverer's "opinions," but said he would talk to him, and

thereby rose steps untold in Rachel's estierously pleasant to the human mind; Mr Mitchell walked at once into

popularity, and Lady Temple had almost conferred a public benefit by

what she so little liked to remember At any rate she had secured an

unexceptionable co

Bessie to amuse Lord Keith, who seemed to be reduced to carry on his

courtship to theby attentions to her guest