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"It's a great bother," Morgana declared--"I never knohat to do with it I can't dress it 'fashionably' one bit, and when I twist it up it's so fine it goes into nothing and never looks the quantity it is However, we must all have our troubles!--with some it's teeth--with others it's ankles--we're never QUITE all right! The thing is to endure without co!"

"And this curious creature who talked "so very strangely," possessed millions of money! Her father, who had arrived in the States from the wildest north of Scotland with practically not a penny, had so gathered and garnered every opportunity that came in his way that every investment he touched seeers When his wife died very soon after his wealth began to accuer to take her place, but he was adaainst all their blandish his entire care to the one child he had brought with hiave a brilliant but desultory and unco ring of gold of which he made himself the centre,--and when he died suddenly "frohtened to nahter inherited, accusto of many millions And now---?"

"California!" er Seaton But what can be her object if she doesn't care for hi a palace built there for her small self to live in 'all by her lonesoh she let go her train of thought and left the verandah,--it was tie her costume and prepare "effects" to dazzle and bewilder the uncertainfreely enjoyed hie of seventy-four, was now looking about for a young strong woe his house and be a nurse and attendant for hi years, for which service, should she be suitable, he would concede to her the naive stability to her position And Lydia Herbert herself was privately quite aware of his views Moreover she was entirely willing to accommodate herself to them for the sake of riches and a luxurious life, and the "settlement" she meant to insist upon if her plans ripened to fulfilreat ambitions; feomen of her social class have To be well housed, well fed and well clothed, and enabled to do the fashionable round without hindrance--this was all she sought, and of roain she caught the flash of a thought in her brain higher than the level of material needs, but dismissed it more quickly than it caana!"