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"Co Mabel

into her chamber, froirl! You are white as a sheet with fatigue I cannot

see why you should have been suffered to know anything about this

very disagreeable occurrence And E o up into that Arctic roo to carry the light and to

keep me company She would have dissuaded me fro into the low, cushioned chair

before the fire, which the mistress of the luxurious apart to herself, for the

first time, that she was chilly and very tired

"But where were the servants, my dear? Surely you are not required,

in your brother's house, to perfor

food and rant"

"Winston had forbidden theht have been thea life which,

however worthless it may seeone?"

The inquiry was hoarsely whispered, and the speaker leaned back in

her fauteuil, a spark of fierce eagerness in her dilated eyes,

Mabel, in her own anxiety, did not consider overstrained solicitude