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The first that he noticed was a bouncing worasped the gate without looking, giving

it a supplementary push with her shoulder, when the white ie not too refined She went to the

green bank, sat down and rubbed herself in the grass, cursing the while

"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the doctor

The next was a girl, with her hair cropped short, in whohter of his late patient, the woodman South

Moreover, a black bonnet that she wore by way ofunpleasantly

re of a tree which had caused

her parent's death and Winterborne's losses She walked and thought,

and not recklessly; but her preoccupation led her to grasp

unsuspectingly the bar of the gate, and touch it with her arm

Fitzpiers felt sorry that she should have soiled that new black frock,

poor as it was, for it was probably her only one She looked at her

hand and arurement

with an alinal