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108 Dear Aunt Elizabeth, I hope it will be amusing. You shall take your wool-work with you, if you like, and I will hold skeins from the seat opposite."

With this the subject was dismissed. Aunt Cathie, bursting with tenderness, gave Lucia an enormous helping of cold lamb, and piled salad on her plate.

But Lucia hardly tasted these things.