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The Dead Alive

CHAPTER II
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THE NEW FACES.
IMMEDIATELY on my arrival, I was presented to Mr.Meadowcroft, the father.
The old man had become a confirmed invalid, confined by chronic rheumatism to his chair.

He received me kindly, and a little wearily as well.

His only unmarried daughter (he had long since been left a widower) was in the room, in attendance on her father.

She was a melancholy, middle-aged woman, without visible attractions of any sort--one of those persons who appear to accept the obligation of living under protest, as a burden which they would never have consented to bear if they had only been consulted first.


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