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Bad Hugh

CHAPTER XIV
15/21

Father suggested that we put a written notice in the business office, and that very afternoon Dr.Richards knocked at our door, saying the ambrotype was his.

'I would not lose it for the world,' he said, 'as the original is dead,' and he looked so sad that I pitied him so much; but I have the strangest part yet to tell.

You are sure she cannot hear ?" and walking to the open window, Ellen glanced down the long piazza to where Adah's dress was visible.
"I looked at the face so much that I never can forget it, particularly the way the hair was worn, combed almost as low upon the forehead as you wears yours, and just as that Mrs.Hastings wears hers.

I noticed it the moment I came in; and, 'Lina, Mrs.Hastings is the original of that ambrotype, I'm sure, only the picture was younger, fresher-looking, than she.

But they are the same, I'm positive, and that's why I started so when I first saw this Adah.


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