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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER XI
18/54

A minute or two later came the knock which she dreaded.

She opened the door, and her mother entered.
'Emily, did you ever know your father so strange ?' Mrs.Hood asked, in a tone of genuine alarm.

She had sunk upon a chair, and looked to the girl as if overcome with physical weakness.

'What can it all mean?
When I asked him why he had told that story about the money, he only laughed--said it was a joke, and he'd explain it all before long.

I can't think where the money came from! And now he's gone to pay that man's fare to London, and no doubt to lend him more money too.' Emily made no reply.


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