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"I am very much distressed about it all,"old lady, very true to type indeed, with the silvery hair of the devout ned with an exquisite lace cap, in a filmy black dress, with a cohted blue eyes, and white blue-veined hands busy now upon needlework

She bore about with her always an atmosphere of piety, huentle sandalwood aroma which breathed froirl atched her noas beginning to find out, was inable and unapproachable Events which conflicted with it were either not events, or they were so exceptional as to be negligible If she were hard pressed she eument impossible

The room in which she sat reflected perfectly her personality In spite of the early Victorian date of the furniture, there was in its arrangement and selection a taste so exquisite as to deprive it of even a suspicion of Philistinis sun fell with serene beauty did not conflict as it ought to have done with the Tudor paneling of the room A tapestry screen veiled the door into the hall, and soft curtains of velvety gold hung on either side of the tall, arden For the rest, the furniture was char and suitable--low chairs, a tapestry couch, a multitude of little leather-covered books on every table, and t carved bookshelves on either side of the door filled with poetry and devotion

The girl who sat upright with her hands on her lap was of another type altogether--of that type of which it is i except that it er would have had no difficulty in assigning her birth to the sign of the Scorpion In outward appearance she was not reness that grew upon acquaintance

Her beauty, such as it as based upon a good foundation: upon regular features, a slightly cleft rounded chin, a quantity of dark coiled hair, and large, steady, serene brown eyes Her hands were not sure slender, well made, and always at its ease in any attitude In fact, she had an air of repose, strength, and all-round competence; and, contrasted with the other, she reseora cat

They were talking now about Laurie Baxter

"Dear Laurie is so i her needle softly through the silk, and then patting her material, "and it is all terribly sad"