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"Nay," she said; "you tried to open my eyes I think this would have

co's stroke"

"Thank you," he said, earnestly

"I daresay you know more than I have been able to understand," she

presently added; "it is like being in thewhat stands or falls"

"And lobster salad as an aggravation!" said he, as the dish successively

persecuted them "This dinner is hard on you"

"Very; but my mother would have been unhappy if I had stayed away It is

the leaving the poor child that grieves me She is in a fearful state,

between sore throat, starvation, and blows"

The picture of the effect of the blows co before Rachel at that

h the dinner; but her

co of her cheek, and by a dexterous

signal at once caused her glass to be filled Habit was fra wine; but somehow she felt

a certain compulsion in his look, and her co, "But it was only the woman that was

cruel"

"She had not her Sepoy face for nothing"

"Did I hear that Miss Williams knew her?"

"Yes, it seems she was a maid who had once been very cruel to little

Rose Williams The Colonel seems to think the discovery may have

important consequences I hardly kno"

This conversation sent Rachel out of the dining-room more like herself