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"Mammy is to relieve him so soon as he is convinced that huravely

Her sister-in-law's high spirits and jocular tone jarred upon her

reeably, but she tried to bear in mind in what dissimilar

circumstances they had passed the last hour If Clara appeared

unfeeling, and her reuished by less taste than was

custohly bred, it was because the exhilaration

of the evening was yet upon her, and she had not seen the

death's-head prone upon the pillows in the cheerless attic Thoughts

of poverty and dying beds were unseerance of the air told of fostering and

sheltering love The heavy curtains did not sway in the blast that

hurled its whole fury against the s; the furniture was

handso hues of

the carpet, and with the tinted walls A tall dressing mirror let

into a recess reflected the picture, brilliant with firelight that

colored the shadows thethened into a deep perspective

the apparent extent of the chaure in the vista

Mrs Aylett had exchanged her evening dress for a cashround of which was enlivened by a Grecian pattern of