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When she heard Morris' naolden hair was more distinctly visible beneath the silken net she wore, and a deep tinge of red dyed her cheeks; but she n that she heard what they were saying Katy was very lovely and consistent in her young hood, and not a whisper of gossip had the Silvertonians coupled with her na her husband in Greenwood There had been no parading of her grief before the public or assureater sorrow than many others had known; but the soberness of her demeanor, and the calm, subdued expression of her face, attested to what she had suffered Sixteen months had passed since Wilford died, and she still wore her deepweeds, except the 's cap, which, at her mother's and Aunt Betsy's earnest solicitations, she had laid aside, substituting in its place a si hair and kept it froainst this fashion Aunt Betsy also inveighed

"Couldn't a body curl their hair when nater intended it to curl, and mourn a-plenty, too?" For her part, she believed it people's duty to look as well as they could, mournin' or not mournin', and Katy couldn't look much wus' than she did, with her hair shoved back under that net, unless it hen she wore that heathenish cap, which randmother

This was Aunt Betsy's opinion, but to others there was soularly sweet and beautiful in the childish face, fro softly about the forehead, and occasionally escaping froraceful curl, which Katy suffered to remain for Aunt Betsy's sake Katy had never been prettier than she was now, in her mature womanhood, and to the poor and sorrowful, whose hooodness

Truly she had been purified by suffering; the dross had been burned out, and only the gold rehtness on all hich it came in contact

They would miss her at the farmhouse now far more than they did when she first went away, for sheHelen's place when she was in New York, and when she ca to her a stay and comforter Indeed, but for Katy's presence, Helen often felt that she could not endure the sickening suspense and doubt which hung so darkly over her husband's fate