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"Oh, no! no! but--" Miss Wellwood reat confusion of noes, buts,

and my dears, and Mrs Curtis came to the rescue "After all, my love,

one can't so much wonder! You have always been very peculiar, you know,

and so clever, and you took up this so eagerly And then the Greys saw

you so unwilling to prosecute And--and I have always allowed you too

much liberty--ever since your poor dear papa was taken--and now it has

come upon you,by

me," and off went poor Mrs Curtis into a fit of sobs

"Mother--," exclai after sal volatile, but feeling

frightfully helpless without Grace, the er of all Mrs Curtis's

ailments and troubles Grace would have let her quietly cry it out

Rachel's re her own

fault only s worse, and perhaps those ten riefs that Rachel had brought on herself

However, ith Miss Wellwood's soothing, and her own sense of the

becoain by the time

the ing for

Grace's return, not sowhether the o down to dinner, so

shaken did she look; for indeed, besides her distress for her daughter,

no sitation was this recurrence to a stated

custoisterial days