MARCH 1, 1872.

THE PANELLED HOUSE.

A Chronicle of Two Sisters’ Lives,

By tHe Avurnor or “A Sreprast Woman,” “ Ertcr THORBURN,” ETC., ETC.

THE WALK IN THE woop (p. 136).

Parr Il.

I.
NEST IN LONDON.
A sweet, attractive kind of grace,

A full assurance given by lookes,

Continuall comfort in a face,

The rudiments of Gospell Bookes.
@)LACE: a London drawing-room, whose
front windows looked out into a noisy
thoroughfare, and its back ones into

a quiet mews. Time: two years and
a half later than Escott’s first departure for Oxford.

Nest Williams was making her first independent
visit from home. Her hostess, Mrs. Anderson,
was a cousin of her father, and had not long
before made the acquaintance of her young relations
at the Panelled House: and both Nest and Winny
had received an urgent invitation to come and stay
with her and her daughters in London. But when
it came to the point, the two aunts would not let
Winny go. She had not been very strong during
the winter, was subject to bad coughs when she
“caught cold, and was utterly careless of her own
health: or at least so Aunt Immy said. Perhaps

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