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"Yes, ht be reht?"

"Oh, very well"

Rachel followed her mother down, sustained by one hope, that Captain

Keith would be there No; the Deanery did not greatly patronize the

barracks; there was not entle And at present the dean hi some dozen ladies

Everybody knew that the cause of delay was the trial of the cruel

matron, and added to the account of Rachel's iniquities their fayrating a to make conversation, which every one felt too fretful and

too hungry to sustain with spirit Rachel sat it out, trying to talk

whenever she saw heranything to say, andto her

At last gentlean to appear in twos and threes, and each made some

confidence to the womankind that first absorbed hiirl beside her becanedly curious to

support even the seence Soentle about "Lady Te lady seized the first opportunity of

deserting Rachel, and plunging into theutterly unable to quit her seat Still they waited,

the whole of the party were not arrived, and here was the curfew

ringing, and that at the Deanery, which always felt injured if it were

seven o'clock before people were in the dining-roo, but to reach her was impossible!