He was not ill, but he was out of sorts and dismal, and disposed to consider the presence of so many strangers as a personal wrong.

Clover felt that it was not a good atmosphere for him, and anxiously revolved in her mind what was best to do.

The Shoshone was much too expensive; good boarding-houses in St.Helen's were few and far between, and all of them shared in a still greater degree the disadvantages which had made themselves felt at Mrs.
Marsh's.
The solution to her puzzle came--as solutions often do--unexpectedly.

She was walking down Piute Street on her way to call on Alice Blanchard, when her attention was attracted to a small, shut-up house, on which was a sign: "No.

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