Chapter 14 WHAT IT MAY LEAD TO.

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'I never was so berhymed since I was an Irish rat, which I can scarcely remember.'-As You Like It.

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'Dim memories haunt the child,

Of lives in other beings led-

Other, and yet the same.'-Keble.

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In the autumn Alda made a visit at home. She had, as usual, gone with Mr. and Mrs. Underwood to their German baths, an