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 "O for that matter, I should be sorry to debar the girl from any pleasure—I am sure it's lonesome enough for her to be with me always—and, if Miss Clare will take you out, child, I shall do very well by myself till you return—it will not be the first time, you know, that I have been left here alone—some of the neighbours will be dropping in bye and bye—or if not, I shall take no harm."

Rosamund had all the simple manners of a child—she kissed her Grandmother, and looked happy.

All tea-time the old Lady's discourse was little more than a panegyric on young Clare's good quali-