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"Do you knoho that person was?"

"Mrs Rawlins," was the ready answer

"I think," said Mr Grey to the accused, "that you must perceive that,

with such coincidence of testimony as I have here, I have no alternative

but to commit you for the su about an action for false imprisonreatly crestfallen

He had no doubt hoped to brazen out his assumed character sufficiently

to disconcert Mr Beauchah he

had carried on the sa confronted with Maria, it was

already beco

his cause even for her own sake, and the last chance of e her

antecedents to discredit her testimony, had been overthrown by Rose's

innocent witness to their mutual relations, a remembrance which had been

burnt in on her childish memory by the very means taken to secure her

silence When the depositions were read over, their re; Mrs Dench had already been

led away by the minister, in tination at the deception were growing too dee of Maria Hatherton

Little Rose looked up to her, saying, "Please, Aunt Ailie,restless and perplexed between impulses of pity

and repulsion, and doubts about the etiquette of the justice rooirl she had cherished, and she signed