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Early in the h domestic

trust, set off for the Patriarchal tent She went by the Iron Bridge,

though it cost her a penny, and walked more slowly in that part of her

journey than in any other At five ht her hand was on

the Patriarchal knocker, which was quite as high as she could reach

She gave Mrs Finching's card to the young wo wo, on her return

to the parental roof, reinvested herself with the title under which she

had lived there--was not yet out of her bedroom, but she was to please

to walk up into Miss Flora's sitting-roo-room, as in duty bound, and there found a

breakfast-table comfortably laid for tith a supple wo for a few moments,

returned to say that she was to please to take a chair by the fire,

and to take off her bonnet andbashful, and not used to make herself at home on such occasions,

felt at a loss how to do it; so she was still sitting near the door with

her bonnet on, when Flora came in in a hurry half an hour afterwards

Flora was so sorry to have kept her waiting, and good gracious why did