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FEBRUARY 1, 1872.

THE PANELLED HOUSE.

A Chronicle of Two Sisters’ Wives.

By THE AUTHOR or “A Srmprast Woman,” “Entice THorpary,” ETC., ETC.

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DRIFTING.

VI.
MAKING FRIENDS.

Perverseness makes one squint-eyed. |
G. HERBERT.

pe) LORA, my dear,” said old Mrs. Escott
rey ] a day or two later, “I do wish you.
4%/ would put my wool-work right, as |
you said you would. I can’t get on
with it till you do.”
* So Iwill sometime, grandmamma ; but I really
can’t just now, I am reading.”

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“ What did I hear you say, Flora?” said Colonel |

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Armyn, whom she had believed to be engrossed in
writing a letter; “Why do you not oblige your
grandmother at once ?”

Flora went sullenly and took up the work, not
with the most amiable countenance in the world.
Presently Colonel Armyn, having written his letter,
went out again, and Flora, though she still held
the work in her hand, resumed her novel. She
had no conscience with regard to little things like
this ; partly, perhaps, owing to the early want of
a mother’s care.

Presently a note was brought in, daintily folded
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