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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-10-3, Page 2Wikontas .4. .ToAtm A, Common twommeemaweeamen Affliction Permanently Cared by Tails YERSa.rsa•• parilla A CAB -DRIVER'S STORY. 0/ was afflicted for eight years with (Salt Ahearn. Daring that thne,1 tried a great 19E1:My 111,edielltes which were highly me- ornMended, but none gave me relief. 1 Was at last advised to try Ayer's Sarsa- parilla, by a friend who told me that 1 Nuust purchase siX bottles, and use thenx aceording to directions. I yielded to.hitr persuasion, bought the slot bottles, and. took the contents of three of these bot.. ties without aotleing any direct benefit.. Before / had fin1sh4..d the fourth bOttle, My hands were as Free from Eruptions SS ever they were. My buskiess, wlileh Is that of a cab -driver, requires me to be Out in cold and wet weather, often without gloves, and the trouble hat never returned'— TB051.,Is A. ,Toarrs, Stratford, Ont. 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'me 13331 - Zs, or reni,wing and le trills La.) 0 :L.1.1.41.1.) seprima. fs.cie e vide 33 utl.tijil fra,a IS OFTEN A NEGLECTED COL" Wk4t04 OrtV•LOra Finally into Consumption. BREAK OP It COLD IN TIME OY UTIINO Pyny- Pectoral THE QUICK CURE FOR COUGHs, COLDS, EIRoNCHITIS, HOARSENESS, Eros,. Large DOttie, 25 Cts - THE PERFECT TEA •HT4Ar THE CLEVER WIDO CHAPTER XVL A, 14IblIzusAT vleITOR. Nov, all thin time, while the tragis comedy of life was being played in these eteburban villas', vehile on a commonplace sseage love end humor and fears. and lights and shadows were so swiftly suoceeding one another, and while these three families, drifted together by fate, were shaping one another'e destinies arid working out in their own fashion the strange, intricate ends of human life, there were human eyes whioh watched over every stage of the perform- ance, etid which were keenly critical of every actor on it. Agrees the road, beyond the green palings and the close -cropped lawn, behind the curtains of their creeper - framed windows, sat the two old ladies, Miss Bertha and Miss Monica Williams, looking out as from a private box at all that was being enacted before them. The growing friendship of the three families, the engagement of Harold Denver with Clara Walker, the engagement of:Charles Westmacott with her !lister, the dangerous fascinetion whioh the widow exeraised over the doctor, the prepoeteroue behavior of the Walker girls, and the unhappiness which they bad caused theirfat her, not one of these incidents escaped the notice of the two maiden ladies. Bertha, the younger, had a smile or a sigh for the lovers ; :Monica, the elder, a frown or a shrug for the elders. Every night they talked over what they had seen, and their own dull, uneventful life took a warmth and a coloring from their neighbors' as a blank wall reflects a beacon' bre, And now it was ctestined that they should experience the one keen sensation of their later years, the one memorable incident from which all Future incidents should be dated. It was on, the very night which succeeded the events which have just been narrated, when suddenly into Monica Williams' head, as she tossed upon her sleepless bed,there shot a thought which made her sit up with a thrill and a gasp. "Bertha," said she, plucking at the shoulder of her sister, "I have left the front window open." "No, Monica, surely not." Bertha sat up also and thrilled in sympathy. "I am sure of it. You remember I had forgotten to water the pots, and then I opened the window, and Jane stalled me about the jam,and I have never been in the room since." "Good gracious, Monica, it is a mercy that we have not been murdered in our beds 1 There was a houee broken into at Forest Hill leet week: Shall we go down and shut it?" "I dare not go down alone, dear; bnt if you will come with me. Put on your slippers and dreseing-gown. We do not need a candle. Now, Bertha, we will go down together." ' Two little white patches moved vaguely through the darkness, the stairs creaked, the door whined, and they were at the front -room window. Monica closed it gently down and fastened the snib. "What a beautiful moon I" said she, looking out. "We can see as clearly as if it were day. How peaceful and quiet the three homes are over yonder 1 It seems quite ead to see that 'To Let' card upon number one. I wonder how number two will like their going. For my part, I could better spare that dreadful woman at number three, with her short skirts and her snake. But, oh, Bertha, look I look!! look 1 I !" lier voice had fallen suddenly to a quivering whisper, and she was point- ing to the Westmacott's house. Her sister gave a gasp of horror and stood with a clutch on Monicee arm, staring in the same d irection. " Good heavens !" gasped Bertha. "It is a burglar I" But, her sister set her mouth grimly and shook her head. " We shall see," she whispered. " It may be something worse." Swiftly and furtively the man stood suddenly erect and began to push the window slowly up. Then he put one knee upon the sash, glanced around to see that all was eafe and climbed over intt the room. As he did so he had to push the blind aside. Then the two spectators saw where the light came from. Mrs, Westmacott was standing as rigid as a atatue, in the centre of the room, with the lighted taper in her right hand. For an instant they caught a glimpse of her stern face and her white collar. Then the blind fell back in positioe, and the two figures.dieappeared from their view. " Oh that dreadful woman 1" cried Monica. " That dreadful, dreadful,woman 1 , She was waiting for him. You saw it with !your own eyes, sister Bertha 1" "flush, dear ; hush and listen ;" said her more charitable companion. They pushed their own window uponce more and watched froin behind the curtains. • For a long time all was silent within the house. The light still stood motionless, as though Mrs. Weetrnacott remained rigidly in the one position, while from time to . time a shadow passed in front of it to show that her midnight visitor was pacing up and down in front of her. Once they saw his outline clearly, with his hands out- stretched, as if in appeal or entreaty. Then euddenly there was a dull sound, a cry, the noise of a fall, the taper was extinguished and a dark figure fled in the moonlight, rushed across the garden and vanished amid the shrubs ae the further side. Then only did the two old ladiee under- stand that they had looked on while a tragedy had been enacted, "Help 1" they cried,and "Help 1" in their high, thin voicee timidly at first, but gathering volume es they went on, until The Wilderness rang out with their shrieks. Lights shone in all the windows epposite, chain rattled, bats setae miehob, doers opened and out rushed fiends to the rescue, Harold, with Se stiek, he Admiral, with his sword, his gray head PiAltIvr TEA thrTR0 WORLD FRONI THE TEA PLANT TO THE TEA Cu' a IN its NATIVE PURITy. "Monsoon" Tea is packed tinder the supervision , the Tea growers and is advertised and sold by them - t and bare feet protruding from either end of long browa ulster ; finally Dr. Welker, ith a poker, all ran to the help of the Vestmaootts, Their door had been already pened,and they crowded tumultuously into he Irene teem. Charles Westmacott, white to hit lips, as kneeling on the floor, supporting his tines head upon his knee. She lay out. tretehed, dressed in her ordinary clothes, he extinguiehed Leper still grasped in her and, nO mark or Wattld upon. her—pale, 1u'id. and senaelesa. "Thank Go d, you are oriole, doctor,° Asa sarnplo of the 8est quatitieb of Tadian and Ceylon Teas. For that reason they see that none -but the roy 'fresh leaves go into rifonsoon packages. , Thatiewhy "Monsoon,' the perfect Tea, aaa he mord at the :same price as inferior tea. It is pet op In eeanA caddies of eS1b,z lb, andt lbs,, and Sold 01, three flavours at 400., pc, anc1,6oc. If your gem:arra:lea not keep It, tell him to write to AL, trAN'TE1g, Si CO., ts and tXetSt. P ,EA'St, Tot .riaid Charles, look,ing up, "Do tell rne how she is and what I theuld do," Dr. Welker 4nolt beside her, and paseed his left hand over her head,while he grasp- ed her pulse with the right. "She lies had a terrible blow," sista he, "It must have been with some blunt weapon,. Here is the piae!! behiud the estr. But she is a woman of extraordinary physia cal powers. Her pulse is full and. slow. There is no starter. It is my belief that she is merely stunued, and that the is in no danger at all." "Thank God for that I" I "We Must get her to bed. We shall oarry her upstairs, and then I shall send my girls into her, But who has done this?" j 1' Some robber," said Charles, "You see that the window is open. She must have heard him and come dovrn, for she was always perfectly fearless. I with to goodness she had called me." " But she was dressed." "Sometimes she sits up very late." "1 did sit up very late, said a voice. She had opened her eyes and was blinking at them in the la uplight. "A villain came in through the window and struck me with a life -preserver. You citti tell the police so when they come, Also that he was a little fat man, Now, Charles, give me your arm and I shall go upstairs,' But her spirit was greater than her strength; for as she staggered to her feet her head swam around, aed she would have fallen again had her nephew not thrown his arms around her. They carried her upstairs among them and laid her upon the bed, where the doctor watphed beside her, while Charles went off to the police station and the Denvers mounted guard over the frightened maids, CHAPTER XVII. Ilt ToRT AT LAST. Day had broken before the several deni- zens of The Wilderness had all returned to their homes, the police finished their in- quiries, and all come back to its normal quiet, Mrs. Westrnacott had been left sleeping peacefully wieli a small chloral draught to steady her nerves, and a hand• kerchief soaked in arnica bOund round her head. It was with some surprise, there- fore, that the Admiral received a note from her about 10 o'clock asking him to be good enough to -step in to her. He hurried in, fearing that she might have taken some turn for the worse,but he was reassured to tind her sitting up in her bed, with Clara and Ida Walker in atteredance upon her. She had removed the handkerchief and had put on a little capwith pink ribbons and a maroon dressing -jacket daintily tulled at the neck and sleeves. "My dear friend," said she as he enter- ed, "1 wish to make a last few remarks to you. No, no," she continued, laughing as the saw a look of dismay upon his face. "1 shall not dream of dying for at leaset another thirty years. A woman should be ashamed to die before she is seventy. I with, Clara, that you would ask your father to step up. And you, Ida, just pass me my eigatettes, and open me a bottle of stout." "Now, then," she continued, as the doctor joined the party,- "I don't quite know what I ought to say to you, Admiral. You want some very plain speaking to." "Pon my word, ma'am, I don't know what you are talking about." "The idea of you at your age talking about going to sea, and leaving that dear, patient little wife of yours at home, who has seen nothing of you all her life? It's all very: well for you. 'You have the life, the change and the excitement, but you don't think of her eating her heart out in a dreary London lodging. You men are all the same." "Well, ma'am, since you know so much, you probably know also that I have sold my pension. How am I to live if I do not turn my hand to work ?" ' Mrs. Westmacott produced a large registered envelope from beneath the sheets and tossed it over to the old sea- man. " That excuse won't do. There are your pension papers. Just see if they are right." He broke the seal and out tumbled- the very papers which he had made over to McAdam two days before. "But what am I to do with these now ?" he cried, in bewilderment,. " You will put them in a safe place, or get a friend to do so, and, if you do your duty, you will go to your wife and beg her pardon for having even for an instant thought of leaving her." The Admiral passed his hand over his rugged forehead. " This is very good of you, ma'am," said he, "very good and kind and I know you are a staunch friend, but for all that, these papers mean money, and, though we may have been in broken water lately, we are not quite in such straits as to have to signal.to our friends. When we do, ma'am, there's no one we would look to sooner than to you." "Don't be ridiculous," said the widow. "Yott' know nothing whatever about it and yet you stand there laying dewn the law. I'll have my way in the matter, and you shall take the papers' for it is no favor that I am doing you, butsimply a restore. tion of stolen property." "How's that, ma'am ?l' "I am just going to explain, though you might ts.ke a lady's word for it without asking any questions. Now, what I am geing to say is just between you four, and must; go no further. I have my own reasons for wishing to keep it from the police. Whom do you think it was who struck me last nighe, Admiral ?" 'Some villain, ma'am. I don't know his name." "But [do. It was the same man who ruined or tried to ruin yew. son. It was my only brother, Teremiah." ' I will tell you about him—or a little about him, for he has done much which I wetild not care to talk of nor you to listen to, He was always a villain, smooth. spoken and plausible,bu t a dangerous subtle villain all the same. If I had some hard thoughts about mankind I can trace them back to the childhood which I spent with my brother, He is my only liviftgrelative, tor my,, other brother, Charlesi's father, Wai0 killed in the Indian mutiny. "Our father was rich, and whets he died he made it good provision both for jeterniall and for me, He knew Jerereiah, and he miatrusted him, however ; so instead of giving him all that he 'had meant him to have, he handed me over a part of it, tell. log me, with what wee almost his dying breath, to hold it in trust for my brother, and to use it in his behalf when he should have equendered or lost all that he had. This arrangement Was meant to he a secret between My father and myself, but unfor• ettrottely hie weeder Were overheard by the nurse, and she iepeated them afterward to thy brother, ao that he dame to knoW that held some money in trait for him. 1 suppoee telseetni will got harm my head, dootor ? Thank you ; then shall trouble Yell for the metchees, Ida," She lighted oiaarette and leaned hassle upon the pillow, evith the blue wresethe curling frein her lips. set eennot tell yon how often he has attelupted tO get thet Mellow from me. He bag bullied, cajoled, threatened, oaxed, done all that a Man (Mold, do. I 0611 held it, with the presentitnent that a need ter it wonld come. When I heard of thie villainous buslueses, his flight, and Ms leaving hie partner to fano the storm, above all, that my old friend had been driven to surrender hie pension iu order to make up fee my bretlier'a defalcation, Mb that tow indeed I had a need for it. I sent Charlet+ yesterday to 2/1r. McAdam, and hie client, uPon hearing the facts of the case, very gracieuely consented to give back the papers and to take the money which he had adVanced, Net a Word of thanks to me, .Admire,l, I tell yon thab it was very cheap benevolence,' for it was all done wieh his own money, and how could I lure it better? "I thought that I should probably hear rom him soon, and I did. Last evening there was handed in a note of the usual whining, ()ringing tone. He had come back from abroad at the risk of hie life and liberty, just in order that he might say good•by to the only sister he ever had, and to entreat my forgiveness for any pain which he had caused me, He would -never trouble me again, and he begged only that I would hand over to him the sum which I held in trust for him. That, with what he had already, would be enough to start him as an honest man in the neve world, when he would ever remember and pray for the dear sister who had been his savior. That wee the style of the letter, and it ended by imploring me to leave the window -latch open, and to be in the front room at three in the morning, when he would come to receive my last kiss and bid me farewell. "Bad as he was. I oould not when he trusted me, betray him. I said nothing but I was there at the hour. Ile entered through the window, and implored me to give him the money. He was terribly changed, gaunt, wolfish, and spoke like a madman. I told hina. that I had spent the money. He gnashed his teeth at me, and swore it was hie money. I told him that I had spent it on him. He asked me how. I said in trying to !slake him an honest rnan and in repairing the results of his villainy. fie ehrieked out a curee, and pulling some. thing out of the breast of his coat—a loaded stick, I think—he struck me with it, and I remembered nothing more." " The blackguard 1" cried the doctor ; " but the police must be hot upon hie track," "1 fancy not," Mr. Westmacott an. swered, calmly. "As my brother is a particularly tall, thin man, and as the police are looking for a short, fat one, I do not think it is very probable that they will catch him. 10 18 best, I think, that these little family matters should be adjusted in private." "My dear ma'am," said the Admiral,,." if it is indeed this man's money that has brought back my pension, then I can have no scruple about taking it. You have brought sunshine upon we ma'am when the clouds were at their darkeet,for here is my boy who insists upon returning the money whioh I got. He can keep it now to pay his debts. For whatt, you have done I can Only ask God to bless you, ma'am, and as to thanking you, I can't even"— . " Then pray don't try" said the widow. "Now run away. ' Admiral, and make your peace with Mrs, Denver. I am sure if I were she it would be a long time be- fore I should forgive you. As for me, I am going to America when Charley goes. You will take me so far won't you, Ida? There is a college being built in Denver which is to equip the woman of the fu- ture for the struggle of life, and espe- cially for her battle against min. Some menthe ago the committee offered me a responsible situation upon the staff, and I have decided now to accept it, for Charles' marriage removes the last tie which binds me to England. You will write to me sometimes, my friends, and you will address your letters to Professor Westma• cott, Emancipation College, Denver. From there I shall watch how tbe glorious !struggle goes in conservative ofd England, and it I am needed, you will find me here again fighting in the forefront•of the fray. Good-by—but not you, girls; I have still a word I wish to say to you. "Give me your hand, Ida, and. yours, Clara," said she, when they were alone. "Oh, you naughty little pusses, aren't you ashamed to look me in the face? Did you think—did you really think that I was so very blind, and could not see your little plot 1 You did it very well, I must say that, and really I thinkthat I like you better as you are. But you had all your pains for nothing, you little conspirators, for 1 give you my word that I had- quite made up my mind not to have him." And so within a few weeks our little ladies from their observatory saw a mighty bustle in The Wilderness, when two -horse carriages came, and coachmen with favors, to bear away the twos who were destined 40 come back one. And they themselves, in their crackling silk dresses, went across, as invited, to the big double -wedding breakfast, which was held in the house of Dr. Walker. Then there was health - drinking, and laughter, and changing of dresses, and riceethroveing when the carriagee drove up again, and teen more couples started, on that journey, which ends only with life itself. Charles -Westmacott is now a flourishing ranchmen in the western part of Teras, where he and his !sweet little wife are the two most popular persons in all that State. Of their aunt they tiee little, but from time to time they see notices iii the papers that there is a footle of light in Denver, where mighty thunderbolts are being forged which 'Pill one day bring the nominant sex upon their knees. The Admiral and his wife still live at number one, while Harold and Clara have taken nurnber twee where Dr. Walker continuee to reside. As to the businees, it has been reconstructed and the energy and ability of the junior partner had eoon made up for all the ill that had been done by his senior. Yet with his sweet and refined home atmosphere he is able to realize his wish, and to keep himself free from the aordid MIMS and base ambition Which drag down the MAII whoee bueiness lies too exclualvely in the money market of the vast Babylon, As he goea back every evening from the crowds of Throgmorton street to the tree lined peace. ful avenues of .Norwood, so be has found it poesible, in spirit also to do his duties amid the babel of the city, and yet to live beyond LTSE END, ] The hest rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear mach, to reflecte alone upon Whet, hat passed in coMpany, to distrust (Mots own opinions and *elite ()there that degeree it, -.Sir W Tereple. qiiiidrort Cry for Pitcher's Clittorli The Showman's Ghost. CHAPTER. I, The blue -faced Tarmaanian Devil slumber - d peacefully the great aboriginal ape of the Azides pursued the aboriginal flea,; the fretful porcupine, like a literary man out of harness, had laid down his quills, andl dozed at easie ;the lordly lion yawned lazily, mindful, possibly, in the sultry heat, of the African desert in width he roamed in in. eant days ; the polar beer alone was die - quieted, and he went up and down in his San like a professional walker against:time. It vvas nearly noon on a roasting English summer day, and Ur. Solomon Varley'e unrivalled peripatetic zoological exhibition was pitched opon an English village green, The village was t'ne centre of e. scattered group of sleepy little places, and Solomon had done fairly good bueiness yesterday, and looked to -day for better business still, On the morrow he and his unrivalled ex- hibition would be away again,in search of fresh halting.plaoes and a pubtie new.. Solomon sate with his wife end daughter in a house on wheels, The houee was painted it golden yellow, and the panele on its walls, were picked out in red. It had snowy muslin ourtains to its little vvindows, and the brass knocker on the door glistened like gold. Within, everything was snug and in miniature, me in state•room aboard ship. At any breath of air the canvas roof of the show made a flapping noise like a sail, and kept up the aboard -ship illusion. Solomon himself was nautical in aspect, being brown of complexion, through much contact with all sorts of weather,and attired in a suit of blue pilot cloth and a low black shiny hat of seagoing pattern. Mrs. Solomon, whose name was Sarah, was also of a nautical pattern, looking generally clesired for action in a dress which displayed her shapely ankles and her plump brown arms. This dress was mit away a little below the neck, showing isomethieg very like a shirt -front, from which rose an undeniable stand.up collar, surrounded by a red scarf tied in a sailor's knot. Her hat was identical in pattern with Solomon's, but was worn rakishly at the back of her head, where it rested on a coil of tidy black hair, giving its wearer a clear look -out aloft. - "This la about as 'ot as they make 'ern, ain't it, MiF8i13 ?" amid Solomon, alluding to the weather, and blowing an idle cloud. His voice was a trifle hoarse with constant open-air oratory. "I hope Jim's a -keeping Jack pretty cool," said Mrs. Solomon Varley. "Ah 1" said Solomon, rubbing his pilot - cloth knees with his brown hands ; and then, rising slowly. "I'll take a look round, issue" e Jim was one of the human staff,and Jack as the polar bear. Jack was apt to grow elicate in hot weather, and it was Jim's business to douche him. Solomon took the promised look round, and watched Jim as he splashed the grizzly Jack. "That's right, Jim," said Solomon, 11keep him cool. 't'his weather tells on him, poor creetur." "Ah Payed Jim, with an air half.mournful, half -resentful. "I don't find nobody to dowir me, master. A cove gets dry inside an out en a day like this." "Tneer's a spot or two o' mysture in the bucket yet," returnedeSolomon ; and Jim, whose predilection ran in favour of other liquids, growled, and splashed Jack with savage energy. "Well," saidSalomon who in Mrs. Vo.rley's absence was always inClined to be sympathetic with the thirsty, fit is a brilin' day. Theer's a tanner for you. Don't make a -beast o' yourself.' Jim, the tight-trousered and loose-shirted dexterously caught the coin, spat upon it, pocketed it, jerked out a `Thanky,master," and took up his buckets, but lingered. "See the bloke in the steer 'at 'ere again yesterday, master ?" he inquired, with a transparent pretence of having asked -the question casually. Solomon nodded, "Uncommon fond o' wild beasts he is, ain't he, master ?" Solomon nodded again. "What's he anter ?" inquired Jim, drop. ping the buckets on the sawdusted turf. " What's he mean by comin' prowlin' around wherever we pitches? What's his little game? Come now,master, out with it. What's his little game ?" James," said Solomon, "I worn't born yesterday, nor yet my missis. We know what's what, if you'll allow us. I've seen coves in all sorts of 'ate in my time—white 'ats and stovepipe 'ate as well as stror 'ate took the same way for a day or two, an' what's it come to? I knowed a feller at- tached to a wild beast establishment once," said Solomon, with a look of undefined humour before which James hung his head, "as was took the same way. But he 'ad the good sense to hold his jor about it, an' smother his secret in his own buzzum. That's what he had the good senae to do, ames." James sullenly, and with an air of dis- comfiture, took up his buckets, and made as if he would retire ; but, dropping them once more, he turned, bluehin,g confusedly. "Pre'aps," he said, "that party got used to keepin' a pretty sharp look•out, and pre'aps, howsummever his feeline is despise, ed, he'll go on a-keepin' of it.' With that Parthian shot James retired, bearing his buckets with him,and Solomon leisurely walking round the establishment, took a look at his properties, - "Maybe Jim's right," he said when he had completed the circuit. Balancing himself on one foot he lifted the other and knocked Otto ashes front his pipe, tapping gently and thoughtfully on the sole. 'Maybe Jim's right. I'll tell the misfire to keep her weather eye open,' He strolled back to the house on wheels, consulting a fat watch by the way. , "Time, Mie8i8, time," he said, standing on the lowese step of the ladder and looking Ye. ,esaaeze:aeseeexeWs.e.s.ssi, for Infants and Children. "eastern" 1st so well adapted to children that l'ecoraniend it as superior to any prescription known to me." H. A. Ancram, M. D., 111 So, Oxford St., Brooklyn, NS Y, "The use of 'Castoria ' is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it, Few arethe intelligent families who do not keep Caseoria within easy reach." Clams elesteee, D. D., New York MY. Late PItstOr Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Oastoria cures Police Conellattlnin Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, EAmotation, )Cills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes dip gestion, Wittiout injurious medication. 0 For several, years I have rectanixien4Q4 your Castoria„ and. shall always continue tq do so as it has invariably produced benefloka results." Enwix F, NAOMI, M. D., "The Winthrop," 125th &inset and ith Ave., New York Cipit ram CENTAUR COMPANY, TT MUMMA? SMART, New TOM& V,:ve through the door. "Wheer Lute you off to, Virgie ?" Mr. Varley's daughter bore the name of indifferently shortened to Vergie or Jennie, according to fancy. She had enjoyed the advantage of a finishing school and was very slay and pretty. She Was shy von with her parents, to whose wandering home ehe had returned a year before with her pretty head stuffed with the lifelike romances of the feminine writers of thio favoured age, "I am going into the village to buy some floss silk," paid Virgie, blushing, as she nearly always did when spoken to. 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