Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 111: what you’re looking at

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Shemeant to make the engagement before telling him, and having thus committed herself, he would be powerless to prevent it. It would be a little troublesome to make the ap- plication the last week in June, for the examinations and closing exercises came then, and she would be very busy. But she determined to attend to the matter at the very beginning of the week, and have it off her mind. Accordingly, one morning, she asked the princi- a of the school if she would give her a récommen- ation for character and qualification to teach, and was gratified by receiving, an hour later, a letter from Madame Hawley, setting forth, in glowing terms, her rank in goes toma and speaking of herin the | ne ee personally. Ariped with this, she started out at twelve the same day, called a cab, and was driven to Hyde Park Corner, where she was set down before an imposing residence, with a great coat-of-arms blazoned over the ponderous door. Ringing the bell, she was ushered through a mag- nificent hall to asmall reception-room on the right, where she was told to wait. She sat down and guise amused herself by look- ing at the beautiful things all about her. “Tt would be delightful to live in such aplace, if all this was one’s own,” she thought, with a sigh of ap- preciation, as her eye roved from picture to picture, from statue to vase, each in itself a work of high art, and of great value. - Presently she was interrupted by the entrance ofa trim servant-girl in a pretty lace cap aud elaborate apron. ‘Please, miss,” she said, smilingly, my lady like you to walk up stairs.” = TSMR BSTELOE