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"No; I particularly wish you not to come"

"Oh, indeed"

"Yes; and she wishes the same It would make her seriously worse if

you were to come It would almost kill herMy errand is of a

peculiar and aard nature It is concerning a subject which weighs

on her eht have her body--after death"

"Oh! Grammer Oliver, the old woman with the fine head Seriously ill,

is she!"

"And SO disturbed by her rash coht the reened?" Grace

held out to him a couple of five-pound notes which she had kept ready

tucked in her glove

Without replying or considering the notes, Fitzpiers allowed his

thoughts to follow his eyes, and dwell upon Grace's personality, and

the sudden close relation in which he stood to her The porch was

narrow; the rain increased It ran off the porch and dripped on the

creepers, and froe of Grace's cloak and

skirts

"The rain is wetting your dress; please do come in," he said "It

really makes my heart ache to let you stay here"