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She would be a
comfort to me, now that I am old, and the house has no young life in it,
except my cats. There's the bedroom at the end of the hall, opening from
my room. She could have that, and I should be so happy fitting it up for
her. I'd trim it with blue, and have hangings at the bed, and--"
Here she stopped, seized with a sudden inspiration, and summoning the
housemaid, Flora, to her, she said:
"Remove the tea things and bring my writing-desk."
Flora obeyed, and her mistress was soon deep in the construction of a
letter to Archibald McPherson, to whom she made the proposition that he
should bring his daughter Betsey to her, or if he did not care to cross
the ocean himself, that he place her under the charge of some reliable
person who was coming to America and who would see her safely to
Allington, or, that failing, she did not know but she would come herself
for the child, so anxious was she to have her.
"I shall not try to conceal from you that I have seen her. You know
that by the result.


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