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"I know sisters, sisters three"

Ere many days had passed Aurelia had drifted into ould now be regarded as the duties of a nursery governess to her little companions

Fay and A Jenny Bowles, with a sort of anie, Letitia The child was attracted by the sounds of her sister's sports, and there was no keeping her froht Jenny became cross, moped, showed spite to the other children, and insolence to the young lady, and was fortunately overheard by Mrs Aylward, and dismissed Letty did not seem to mind the loss as Amoret had felt that of her foster-reeable to her as to the others during these days of jealousy

The triad were not est of the three, pluolden-haired, rosy-cheeked, a picture of the cherub-type of child; Letitia had the delicate Delavie features and complexion; and Fidelia, the least pretty, was pale, and rather salloith deep blue eyes set under a broad forehead and dark broith hair also dark Though the sood training She had soood manners, and knew asof a sheet of parchment or paper protected by a sheet of transparent horn--DL] and catechisirls of five ont to know The other tere perfectly ignorant, but Mrs Aylward procured hornbooks, prian their education in a sreat e corridors and vacant roo at the swathed curtains of velvet pile, the rolls of carpet, and the tapestry pictures on the walls, running and shouting in the eht, taking refuge in Aurelia's ararden, provided they trod on no borders, and an by viewing them as his natural enemies, but soon relaxed in aave thehty little inroad, which greatly alar, there lay beyond, the park, its slopes covered ild strawberries, and oods where they could gather flowers unchecked Further, there was no going, except on alternate Sundays, when there was service in the tuate It was in far worse condition than the Church at ho curate, who lived at Brentford, and divided his services between four parishes, each of which was content to put up with a fortnightly alternateservice The Belamour seat was a square one, without the comfortable appliances of the Delavie closet, and thus per to be seen except a row of extre to the full, the saltir-wise sheafs of arrows on the shields or lozenges, supported by grinning skulls The le crest, the woes, and the faed for the am"