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Mabel had not the air of one whose heart is bruised or torn That

she had gained in queenliness within the past year was not evidence

of austerity or the callousness that ensues upon the healing of a

wound The Ayletts were a stately race, and the fehile she

was in her teens, had carped at her lack of pride because of her

disposition to choose friends from the walks of life lower than her

own, and criticised as unbecos and plebeians--the publicans and sinners of the

aristocrat's creed--to worship the ground on which she trod--the

censors in the court of etiquette conferred upon her altered

de, for the

thousandth ti run

and bring forth the respectable fruits of refinee had coression, dating--Mrs

Sutton saith pain; Rosa, with enforced respect--from the sunset

hour in which she had read her brother's sentence of condeed, lover After that one

evening, she had not striven to conceal herself and her hurt in

solitude Neither had she borrowed from desperation a brazen helmet

to hide the forehead the cruel letter had, for a brief space, laid