In Sight of St. Paul's — page 128: what you’re looking at

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e THE PANTHER AT BAY. 123 or another. I’m sure we can afford to marry and be respectable. What do you say?”’ Now Rose was not a bad girl in her way. Through answering an advertisement, she had come into the employ of one of the gorgeously plumaged, but soiled doves that inhabit such villas as she was now in, and, after that, she had found it impossible to obtain em- ployment in more respectable families. “Pll think it over, Amos,’’ she said, not liking to agree-at once, although her mind was fully made up. Amos was about to push the point, when a loud ringing at the bell brought him back to the duties for which he was paid. *“"That’s them!’? he exclaimed, emphatically, though ungrammatically. ‘‘Tll go and open the door.”’ Rose started from her chair, and, rubbing her eyes, prepared to receive her mistress. It was unusual for them to be home as early as this. Why, she would be in bed before daylight for the first time since she had been there. In a few minutes her mistress, eS eae by Captain Gridston, entered the room. Cynthia, looking very pale and weary, flung off her gold-embroidered opera-cloak and sank down upon a divan. ‘(Will madame change her dress?’’ asked Rose. ‘““No,’’ replied Cynthia, passing her hand over her (E(0) comicbooks