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"If you have tiently, "I think it ht save Alick some pain and vexation"

Rachel was entirely unaware of hisof the recent wound; but when he sat down and took

a long account out of a tradesman's envelope, a chill of dislow of hope as she recollected a possible

explanation: "Have these wretched tradesain at such a tilad to find their receipts," returned the Colonel

They opened the h

neatly kept, really in hopeless confusion In vain was the search, and

notes came forth which rendered it but too plain that there had been a

considerable ae, and that she had

radually, but

that her new expenses were still growing upon her, and the few payments

"on account," since she had been Lady Keith, by no means tallied with

the amount of new purchases and orders No one had suspected herin disorder, and Rachel was very slow to comprehend;

her simple, country life had made her utterly unaware of the

difficulties and ways andlady of fashion Even the

direct evidence before her eyes would not at first persuade her that

it was not "all those wicked tradesmen;" she had always heard that