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"Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given"

Timon of Athens

Under the circureater penance could

have been devised than the solemn dinner party which had to take place

only an hour after the investigation was closed Grace in especial was

nearly distracted between her desire to calm her mother and to co to the Grey family, who

repaid themselves for their absence from the scene of action by a

torrent of condolences and questions, whence poor Grace gathered to her

horror and consternation that the neighbourhood already believed that

a tenderer sentile in Rachel's

relations with the secretary of the F U E E Feeling it incumbent

on the whole family to be as lively and indifferent as possible, Grace,

having shut her friends into their rooms to perform their toilette,

hurried to her sister, to find her so entirely engrossed with her

patient as absolutely to have forgotten the dinner party No wonder! She

had had to hunt up a housemaid to make up a bed for Lovedy in a little

roo of the poor child

had revealed injuries even in a more painful state than those which had

been shown to Mr Grey, shocking earments

The child was al to attelobules had gone down, and put much faith in them, and in warmth

and sleep; but incessantly occupied, and absolutely sickened by the

sight of the child's hurts, she looked up with loathing at Grace's

entreaty that she would, dress for the dinner

"Impossible," she said

"You must, Rachel dear; indeed, you must"