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Emily Fox-Seton

CHAPTER Nine
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"You will be doing them _such_ a favour." "I am doing it for you, not for them.

I like to see you pleased." She went to take off her hat with moisture in her eyes, being overpowered by his munificence.

When she reached her room she walked about a little, because she was excited, and then sat down to think of the relief her next letter would carry to Mrs.Osborn.Suddenly she got up, and, going to her bedside, knelt down.

She respectfully poured forth devout thanks to the Deity she appealed to when she aided in the intoning of the Litany on Sundays.

Her conception of this Power was of the simplest conventional nature.


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