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    IN tember, Maggie ting in tling

    midniging  tful force by ter Lucys visit t and drougo cold variable ervals; and so risk templated journey until ttled. In ties inuous, and tion of t ed. And no t, so t talked of sixty years ago,  t on t floods, oo great misery. But tion, urally prone to take a  ted taken a  but for t ts,  obliged to go to a distance for food. But t te, by tenings of a er falls of sno t, to break loide came in ers  causing more temporary inconvenience, and losses t  only by t, wy would relieve.

    All   midnig some solitary ced in tle parlour to left everyt a letter  letter,   o t - unconscious  -  coming across  of t far, far off rest, from ruggling earthly life.

    t letter so tory for t time. ted  t first enligs as to turn ion to Maggie, ly been made more fully a by an earnest remonstrance from one of  tion of persisting in ttempt to overcome t feeling in tance. Dr Kenn, ter, ill inclined to persevere - ill averse to give iment t emptible; but  upon by tion of ty attaco  `appearance is al on ty of surrounding minds.  `appearance is proportionately inacy; per o succumb: conscientious people are apt to see ty in t o recede o Dr Kenn.   advise Maggie to go a Oggs for a time; and  difficult task ating in vague terms t tempt to countenance ay o obstruct o alloe to a clerical friend of  possibly take o , ion for a young rong interest.

    Poor Maggie listened rembling lip: s a faint `teful; and so ion. S be a lonely  among fr