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"I a herself

in s for the soldiers' wives

"Far from it Was I inattentive--?"

"Oh no--(Yes, Una dear, very pretty)--but I foundin the

voice that always makes Alick shut his eyes"--"I should not think

he often had to do so," said Erentle

re--") "Less often than before," said Rachel--("Never mind the butterfly,

Una)--I don't think I have had h fit of what he

calls leaping into the gulf It was about the soldiers' wives s, are the most miserable creatures in the

world; and when I first found out about them I was in the sort of mood

I was in about the lace, and raved about the system, and was resolved to

employ one poor woman, and Alick looked meeker and meeker, and assented

to all I said, as if he was half asleep, and at last he quietly took up

a sheet of paper, and said he ulf, and an officer's wife ulations

of the service I was nearly as bad as ever, I could have written an

article on the injustice of the arin,