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CHAPTER I
12/16

Only three left._ Only three! Oh, do lend us the money, and let's go and get one!" "Not to-night," said Magdalen.

"Suppose you go to bed now, and finish the circulars tomorrow?
I will put them by the bedside for you, and you can go on with them as soon as you wake the first thing in the morning." This suggestion met with Mrs.Wragge's immediate approval.

Magdalen took her into the next room and put her to bed like a child--with her toys by her side.

The room was so narrow, and the bed was so small; and Mrs.
Wragge, arrayed in the white apparel proper for the occasion, with her moon-face framed round by a spacious halo of night-cap, looked so hugely and disproportionately large, that Magdalen, anxious as she was, could not repress a smile on taking leave of her traveling companion for the night.
"Aha!" cried Mrs.Wragge, cheerfully; "we'll have that Cashmere Robe to-morrow.

Come here! I want to whisper something to you.


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