BLIGHTED BEINGS
XXXV. THE PHANTOM BLACKCOCK OF KILNAUGHT
XXXVI. OF NO CONSEQUENCE
XXXVII. THE TRAVELLER'S JOY
XXXVIII. THE TRUST FULFILLED
XXXIX. THE TRUANT
XL. EVIL OUT OF GOOD
XLI. GOOD OUT OF EVIL
XLII. DISENCHANTED
MAGNUM BONUM;
OR,
MOTHER CAREY'S BROOD.
CHAPTER I. JOE BROWNLOW'S FANCY.
The lady said, "An orphan's fate
Is sad and hard to bear."—-Scott.
"Mother, you could do a great kindness."
"Well, Joe?"
"If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath's here for
the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and
worst, and they don't know what to do with her, for she came from the
asylum for officers' daughters, and has no home at all, and they must
go away to have the house purified. They can't take her with them,
for their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to
room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the
critical state of chest left by measles."
"What is her name?"
"Allen. The cry was always for Miss Allen when the sick girls wanted
to be amused."
"Allen! I wonder if it can be the same child as the one Robert was
interested about. You don't remember, my dear. It was the year you
were at Vienna, when one of Robert's brother-officers died on the
voyage out to China, and he sent home urgent letters for me to
canvass right and left for the orphan's election.
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