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Mrs Sutton understood it all--the hurry and agitation of the

unlooked-for arrival; the faintness and prostration of the

consuht, and the well-roes in an establishment where the mistress had

been feeble for years, and was now chained to her room and chair by

paralysis

"And Rosa was always an indolent flyabout in health; accustomed to

have a score of servants at her heels to pick up whatever she

dropped or threw aside," she said to herself "My Mabel was a pink

of neatness and order compared with her Dear rease-spot in the front breadth of

a splendid silk dress! I hope these things do not annoy her as they

would me!"

Whether the universal disarray made Rosa uncomfortable or not, she

enjoyed the aspect of the tidy apartht her

noiseless labors to a close by exchanging her night-gown for a

flannel wrapper; putting clean linen upon her and the bed; co her hands, wrists, and face in tepid

water, interfused with cologne

"It prevents a sick person fro cold when bathed, and