Chapter 15 WHAT IT LED TO.

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'Then out and spak the popinjay.'

Old Ballad.

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Geraldine was hard at work on a drawing. Edgar's teaching had improved her so much that, under a sore longing to obtain some good studies, she had ventured to place in the shop one of her best imaginary groups, and to her surprise and delight, it had brought her in fifteen shilli