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He wrung the surprised and unwilling hand, and before the youth,

startled and overcoh to attempt a reply, he had

come back to Rachel, resu and treitation, and the force he had put

on himself Rachel neither could nor durst speak; she only squeezed his

hand, and when he had shut hi to his uncle, and telling him the whole Mr Clare's "God

bless you,after, Alick told Rachel of his havingto occupy hi And in a short tiain

called to pour out to Mrs Keith her war roused her son froeable despair, and made him

consent to accept a situation in a new field of labour, in a spirit of

rave and subdued, but not wholly mournful, period at

Bishopsworthy--a tih

there was much to render it anxious Alick continued to suffer from

recurrences of the fever, not very severe in the hi and headache every

third day, and telling heavily on his strength and looks when he called

hiood days he was always at Timber End, where

his services were much needed Lord Keith liked and estee reat assistance to the Colonel Lord Keith's illness was tedious