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Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise

CHAPTER X
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The thirteen that looked doubtful or worse when tested by the light she restored with the greatest care.

It was an interesting illustration of the rare quality of consideration which at that period of her life dominated her character.
She put the four eggs in the bosom of her blouse and climbed up to her eyrie.

All at once she felt the delicious languor of body and mind which is Nature's forewarning that she is about to put us to sleep, whether we will or no.

She lost all anxiety about safety, looked hastily around for a bed.

She found just the place in a corner of the little tableland where the grass grew tall and thick.


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