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noon. Fancy welcomed him as usual, and asked him to stay and take tea with her.

'I be'n't much for tea, this time o' day,' he said, but stayed.

During the meal he watched her narrowly. And to his great consternation, discovered the following unprecedented change in the healthy girl—that she cut herself only a diaphanous slice of bread-and-butter, and laying it on her plate, passed the meal in breaking it into pieces, but eating no more than about one-tenth of the slice. Geoffrey hoped she would say something about Dick, and finish up by weeping, as she had done after the decision against him a few days subsequent to the interview in the garden. But nothing was said, and in due time Geoffrey departed again for Yalbury Wood.

''Tis to be hoped poor Miss Fancy will be able to keep on her school,' said Geof-

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