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in their new quarters, happily for theood became

worse On the s appeared, and in a week she was dead What Clara and Madge

suffered cannot be told here Whenever anybody e love dies, we

discover that although death is coht about it all our lives, but if it co to us, for which we are entirely

unprepared It th of the bond which is broken that is the surprise, and we are

debtors in a way to death for revealing so after the first e were astonished to find how dependent

they had been on their rown-up women accustomed

to act for themselves, but they felt unsteady, and as if deprived of

custoh

it was often silent, and they were not conscious of it A defence

from the outside waste desert had been broken down, their mother had

always seemed to intervene between them and the world, and now they

were exposed and shelterless