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MAGDALEN'S APPRENTICESHIP.
"MR.

JULIAN GRAY has asked me to tell him, and to tell you, Mr.
Holmcroft, how my troubles began.

They began before my recollection.
They began with my birth.
"My mother (as I have heard her say) ruined her prospects, when she was quite a young girl, by a marriage with one of her father's servants--the groom who rode out with her.

She suffered, poor creature, the usual penalty of such conduct as hers.