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"I have read in the e and mystic scroll,

That an aruer the hu strealeaht"

The Beleaguered City, LONGFELLOW

A dinner party at the Deanery in the sessions as an institution,

but Rachel, lying on the sofa in a cool rooht herself exempt

from it, and was conscious for the time of but one wish, namely, to be

let alone, and to be able to shut her eyes, without finding the lids, as

it were, lined with tiers of gazing faces, and curious looks turned on

her, and her ears from the echo of the roar of fury that had dreadfully

terrified both her and her mother, and she felt herself to have merited!

The crush of public censure was not at the e lances, and if she reflected at all, it ith a weary speculating

wonder whether one pair of dark grey eyes had been aht that if they had, she could not have , or perchance soleam of sympathy, such

as had sometimes surprised her from under the flaxen lashes

There she had lain, un calrey pinnacle of the cathedral, and a few branches

of an elh the open , and the