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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER V
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This it was resolved to do.
He had had certain dealings in Dunfield, and in Dunfield he would strike his tent--that is to say, in Banbrigg, whence he walked daily to a little office in the town.

Rents were lower in Banbrigg, and it was beyond the range of certain municipal taxings.
Mrs.Hood possessed still her somewhat genteel furniture.

One article was a piano, and upon this she taught Emily her notes.

It had been a fairly good piano once, but the keys had become very loose.

They were looser than ever, now that Emily tried to play on them, on her return from Surrey.
Business did not thrive in Dunfield; yet there was more than ever need that it should, for to neglect Emily's education would be to deal cruelly with the child--she would have nothing else to depend upon in her battle with the world.


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