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affection and kindness by getting better rapidly while he is here,

that he hter heart"

"He is kind! too kind!"the

cushions, as if to sleep

She was quiet so long that Mrs Button had leisure for so to her own personal action in the so position she occupied She had never seen Frederic

Chrlton froeley as Mabel's betrothed His

visits to the neighborhood since his e had been few and

brief, and she had studied to avoid him whenever she happened to be

with the Williauessed

her design, or unwittingly favored it on his own account The

would not be more pleasant to him than to her But why had

he allowed his wife to send for her? The alteration in hireat, if he could, without a conflict with resentful and

painful memories, bow his pride to sue for the services of a

relative of the Ayletts, and formerly one of their household, even

in such a cause as that which now commanded her sympathies