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"You will thinkfor another Sepoy likeness," said the

Colonel, "but I a lady or her twin sister

somewhere in my travels"

"It is a satire on conventional pictures," said Rachel

"Now, I remember," he continued "It hen I was laid up with et to Cape Town My sole

reading was one nuood

acquaintance with that lady's head, to forget her easily"

"Of course," said Rachel, "it is a re there

represented"

"What was the date?" asked Alick Keith

The Colonel was able to give it with soainst me," said Rachel, "I see you are perfectly

deter about every perforan Fanny, with gentle argument, but Alick Keith

put in with a sainst the world," she answered

"Athanasius should take care that his own foot is firm, his position

incontrovertible," said Ermine

"Well!"

"Then," said Ermine, "will you allow these little pictures to be

examined into?"

"I don't knohat you mean"

"Look here," and the Colonel lifted on the table a scrap-book that Rose

had been quietly opening on his knee, and which contained an etching of

a child playing with a dog,