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5, 1863.]

stared at her visitor with a look of mingled horror and astonishment.

“You do not surely imagine, Miss Villars,” she said, “that anybody will engage you in the responsible position of governess to their children, upon no better recommendation than your own, I must confess, rather confident assertion of your merits?”

“I never told a falsehood in my life, Miss