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of her, to the intense relief of herher three minute

conference no one in the study had ventured on speaking or stirring, and

Mrs Curtis would not thank her biographer for recording the wild alarh her brain, as to the object of her daughter's

tete-a-tete with the istrate

It was over at last, and the hall of justice broke up Mary Morris was

at once in herup for

all past privations by a substantial one to Avoncester to purchase thread, and only her daughter

Susan had coirl as supposed to be a sort of spider,

with no capacities beyond her web Nor did Rachel think Lovedy capable

of walking down to Mackarel Lane, nor well enough for the comfortless

chairs and the third part of a bed No, Mr Grey's words that Rachel was

accountable for the children's sufferings had gone to her heart Pity

was there and indignation, but these had brought such an anguish of

self-accusation as she could only appease by lavishing personal care

upon the chief sufferer She carried the child to her own sitting-roo Susan aith the

assurance that Lovedy should stay at the Ho again Fanny, who had accoent that the doctor should be

sent for; but between Rachel and the faculty of Avonmouth there was a

deadly feud, and the proposal was scouted Hunger and a bad cold were

easily treated, anda

patient all to herself and her homoeopathic book