Chapter 19 THE HOUSE WITHOUT PILLARS.

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'And who save she could soothe the boy,

Or turn his tears to tears of joy?'

Samuel Rogers.

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Lance's train was at six o'clock, and that by which the sisters were to return to Bexley so little later, that they would await it at the station, so the household was betimes more or less afoot. There was a frenzied scramble of mai