Love at the Loom — page 157: what you’re looking at

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DONALD IRWIN’S RETURN. ‘So it was arranged that the servants should be taken to the country house, with the exception of a few who - would: not leave the city in the winter time. There were a number of things necessary to be done, and Mildred: was out of the house many times, Goldie remaining home. There were papers to be signed, lawyers to be con- sulted and a great deal else to be done, so that Goldie was not idle. Mildred knew everything Goldie did; but the latten was far from knowing what the former did when she was out of the house. If she had known she would But never have gone to the country house with her. she neither knew nor suspected, and so the prepara- tions went on. Goldie grew calmer in her grief, perhaps, but as the days went by it seemed as if her heart became heavier and heavier. Those who met her as the lawyers and men of busi- ness: cid- were. always charmed--and faseinated- by. her. z beauty: and sweetness, and they. all conceived: the no= % (€ (6) m Gk ae “S co