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Once, when Mrs Menteith had been besetting her father with entreaties

for the keys of Lady Keith's private possessions, she was decisively

silenced, and the next day these saiven to Alick, with a

request that his ould as soon as possible look over and take

to herself all that had belonged to his sister, except a few heirlooreatly, but the

old man would not brook contradiction, and Rachel was very unwillingly

despatched upon the mission on one of Alick's days of prostration at

ho part of this sad day's work

Any way it could not be otherwise than piteous to disht and luxurious, and the contrast of the present

state of things with that in which these dainty needding presents had

been brought together, could not but give ; but beside this,

there was a more than ordinary impression of "vanity of vanities, all

is vanity," very painful to affection that was striving to lose the

conviction that it had been a self-indulgent, plausible life The

accumulation of expensive trinkets and s to a person of Rachel's severely sie; for Bessie had always had