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Mrs Sandford devoted herself to the doctor Of course, a

sudden stop was put to our gay amuseo to entertainments anywhere

The stir and the rush of the world had quietly dropped er to be in it and knoas

doing; and above all, what one was doing I studied the

newspapers, more assiduously than I had hitherto had time for

They excited me almost unbearably with the desire to know more

than they told, and with unnu, to wear away part of the restless uneasiness

which had settled upon , when the sun's light was off the avenue and the

air a little cooler; and kept myself out of the house as much

as I could

It was so that I ca I alking up Pennsylvania avenue; slowly,

for the evening arone down

Slowly and disconsolately My heart began to faila word to Mr Thorold, now that I was

completely at liberty; and I wished I had done it at once upon

Dr Sandford's beco ill Two or three days' time had been

lost I should have to take the note to the post-office

myself; but that would not be impossible now, as it had been

until now While I was thinking these things, I saw a horse at a fast