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sysWART A WABASAQ, | said ail 9 Brokers and Commission Merchants,

por the sale and purchase of American and Provincial Produce, The following exquisite poem, by William Pitt Pammer | and Dealers in Provisions, Fish, Oil, &e. > » Was some years ago pronounced by one of the most eminent | RY LANDING,.....--. W ATER-ST., ST. JOHN, N. B. European critics to be the finest production of the same length | RsvERENCES ae P an Ai, eee Esq. in our language : oe - ey ys ame. Ke Rangin & Co. From the quickened womb of the primal gloom

fet. 8, 1500. | The sun rolled black and bare,

ot Ba. A ee STON. Arose on its airy spars, |

; RUSSIA : Ht Ri ; BOST : | I pencilled the hue of its matchless blue, Particular attention is given to consignments of Vessels and) “And spangled it round with stars Produce from the British Provinces ; and the purchase and | : igment of all kinds of Merchandize, with a general Insurance J] painted the flowers of the Eden bowers,

Agency. September 10. | “And their leaves of living green,

; re als F , And mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes 84933 wy T3h, | Of Eden’s virgin queen ; q James W. Cairns, .-...- Proprietor, ) And when the fiend’s art on the trustful heart

Had fi i 7 KENT STREET. CHARL@TTETOWN, P. E. I. ad fastened its mortal spell,

| ° _In the silvery sphere of the first born tear Fieasantly situated, and every comfort afforded at moderate cost. To the weakling earth I fell. ’ Horses aad vehicles, for hire, in connection with the establishment. ae > ge st ifitiennanannin | When tLe waves that burst o’er a world accursed,

ee - y — = a y : rc ' ~ . al . ie hepa: Their work of wrath had sped, ; JAUIZS i) ORRIS, | And the Ark’s lone few, tried and true, Commission Merchant, General Agent and Came forth among the dead, Auctioneer. | With the wondrous gleams of my bridal beams,

QUEEN STREET, | I bade their terror cease,

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| Like a pall at rest on a senseless breast, Night's funeral shadow slept— | Where shepherd swains on the Bethlehem plains | Their lonely vigils kept— When I dashed on their sight the heralds bright Of Heaven's redeeming plan, | As they chanted the morn of a Saviour born— | doy, joy to the outcast man. Equal favor I show to the lofty and low, On the just and unjust I descend ; | E’en the blind whose vain spheres roll in darkness and tears, | Feel my smile the blest smile of a friend, ; Nay, the flower of the waste by my love is embraced, | As the rose in the garden of kings ; ; At the chyrsalis bier of the worm | appear,

“ Alliance Life and Fire Insurance Company” of | -4»4 lo' the gay butterily wings.

LONDON The desolate morn, like a mourner forlorn, ESTABLISHED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT | Concedals all the pride of her charms, ‘ | Till f bid the bright hours chase the nig! t from her flowers, And lead the young day to her arms ; | And when the gay rover seeks Eve for his lover, And sinks to her balmy repose,

Isz4. Capital, Pive Millions Sterling. CHARLES YOUNG,

Aori! 14. Agent for P. E. Island. : aa e ; : ern nares ep Ne ne Te ee ee tL WED: SRO WAR FO8s PY 580 Soper Tene wee > Excellent Stand for business for Sale at) © in curtains of amber and rose.

Bedeque. HE subscriber offers for sale the following excellent stand | From my sentinel steep hy the night-brooded deep fur business, situate opposite Hooper’s Corner, Bedeque. | JT gazed with unslumbering eye. — There is a piece of one with a front on the road ef five | When the cynosure star of the mariner

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window, and bade the servant bring in a basin and water. ;" . . . . . . . aN with an angelic smile, she invited me to sit down in the chair.

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LIGHT. } ‘* Satan himself,’ thought I, ‘‘ must have brought me to an ot con- | escaping alive from Wiesenthal. I rather think my senses

this house ;’’ and straightway I declared that I coul

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I saw nothing, but I felt weak. 1 let my head fall back upon the sofa-cushion and closed my eyes. ‘ Bled to death,” thought I to myself, and stirred not, for I-was quite resigned tomy fate, and convinced that there was no chance of my

sent to submit to any operation, and that, as to tooth-drawing, | left me. At least I remember little of what passed, until, an it was clean against my principles. | hour and a-half later, I found myself walking in the grounds **{ will do nothing at all to your mouth,” replied Emily ; | with Frager. 1 walked but slowly, for the blood-letting Lad

‘‘ but the teeth are one of my favourite studies, and I beg you will aliow me to examine yours.”

L thought it rather an odd wish, but I did not like to re- fuse, lest she should think me acoward. I did make some further objections—would not give her the trouble, and so forth ; but all this was of no use. I at last had to sit down

'in the chair by the window, and open my month. Just as I

did so, the counsellor left the room. My heart sunk within me; | was now completely in the power of this fiend and her forceps. She took a sort of probe, and scraped and poked about my mouth in a manner that was anything but agreeable. l endured the pain, however, and said nothing. Then she took some other instrument, and scraped and scratched again. The sufferings of Job can hardly have exceeded mine.

** Have the goodness to wash out your mouth,’’ said the eperator, handing me a glass of water. I did as I was bid, and discovered to my horror, that my gums bled profusely.

‘* Nothing more dangerous,”’ said this infernal Dieffenbach, ‘than to have the gums growing too low down upon the teeth. I have separated them a little.”’

6 Small thanks to you,’’ thought I and hoped, with a sigh, that my tortures were at anend. Not a bit of it. Emily again rummaged in her instrument-case.

‘Iwill not trouble you any more,’’ I said, closing my mouth.

‘** Only one moment,” said the determined dentist, and in an instant thrust some hideous piece of mechanism into my mouth, and propels atooth. Before 1 knew where | was, blue lights danced hefore my eyes, and I felt as if my jaw was breaking. The next moment a magnificent double tooth, with two pro- digious fangs, was waved ia triumph before my eyes.

**1¢ must have come out yery soon,’’ quoth Dieffenbach, with imperturbable calmness ; ‘‘ decay bad began, and would shortly have spread to the ether teeth, and caused you great pain.”’

I was more dead than alive. My tongue eonyulsively sought the horrible gap left by my departed and irreplaceable grinder.

‘You have two other double teeth that will not last you long,’’ continued Emily ; ‘if you please, we will take them out at once, to save further trouble. My hand is in, and I should be of opinion to have them out.’’ She flourished her diabolical implement, but I shouted with terror, and sprang from the chair as if a scorpion had stung me.

** As you please,’’ said Emily with a charming smile, and

;gathering together her instruments, left the room with a

gracious gesture, leaving me spitting blood and musing over this new and most abominable adventure. Never was any

suitor so infamiously treated. Nearly shot through the head } " .

| OF one lady, and having his tooth wrenched out by another.

1 gazed sorfowfully at the recent @ecupant of my mouth, which had never caused me a moment’s pain, when the coun- sellor, whos car gay shrick of agony had reached, hastily entered the room afid inquired what was the matter.

** Your daughter,”* replied [, in no very friendly tone, ‘* has been pleased to extract, in spite of my resistance, a perfeetly sound tooth from my mouth; an éxploit from which | am far from obliged to her.’’

*« Perfeetly sound,’’ said Frager, shaking his head; ‘there | must beg to differ from you. Emily understands teeth. and

chains, and two chains deep. There is a new Dwelling House | _ Is blotted from out the sky ; upon it, a story and a half high ; it has five comfortable rooms | And guided by me through the nerciless sea, on the first floor, besides a commodious Kitchen and Dairy ; the | Though sped by the burricane’s wings, . econd floor may be laid off in four convenient bed-rooms. A His compassionless, dark, lone, weltering bark Store adjoins the Dwelling House, measuring 20 x 30, and is} To the haven home safely he brings. well fitted up for business. Another small Dwelling House : . adjoins the Store, which will be sold with the other property. | I waken the flowers in their dew-spangled bowers, The Land will be divided into building lots, and sold se parately, The birds in their chambers of green, if so required; or sold all in one block, with the Salldings And mountains and plain glow with beauty again thereon. | As they bask in their national sheen.

The situation of this property, being in the midst of a | 0, if sach the glad worth of my presence tocarth, fuurishing and beautiful settlement, and within a very short ‘Though fitful and fleeting the while,

distance of the rapidly thriving sea-port settlement ef Summer- | hat glories must rest on the home of the blest, de, renders it a very desirable location for the establishment! Ever bright with the Deity’s smile. ofa Mercantile Business, or a Boarding House. Part of the ‘ siete

purchase money may remain on mortgage. Further informa- iion respecting terms and other particulars may be obtained on applicaticn being made to the subscriber at Charlottetown.

JOUN HARPER. | Courtship under Difficulties. A HUMOROUS HISTORY.

FROM THE GERMAN OF FERDINAND STOLLE.

(From Blackwood’s Magazine for December, 1855.)

Charlottetown, January 14, 1856. 2 Dwelling House and Land near Charlotte- town for Sale. OR SALE, the aouly built - ee eee ( Continued.) House in Charlottetown Royalty, lete the residence of the “Her. | a i : a Charles Hensley. together with eighteen acres of Land adjoining. The | M iss Emily was gradually becoming as odious to me as her Dwelling House contains—Dining Room, Drawing Room and Study; two | galloping pistol-firing sister. Her father scolded, but his words | Kitehons, with Store-réoms, &c.; and Nine Bed rooms. There isalso | were mere wind, as regarded their effect upon Dieffenbach, Stables, Coach-house, Root-house, Pamp, &e.,on the premises. The dis-| who was far too much engrossed with her amputation to care a fromm her enya rather . on ane all as agreed upon, | ®,°OPPe® for paternal chidings. Again putting forward the maD Oo TES EPSED FORT LO YORE, OF HE OSU GS PHN, 86 ~ 2 abominable hand,she began to explain, in scientific phrase, — Pee ee ee ta soe ce roe the nature of the injuries, and the necessity of its removal, Por Terms of Sale and Lease apply to the subseriber at the Attorney , when Frager lost all patience, and ordered her immediately to Gevera|’s Office, Colonial Building, Charlottetown. remove the abominable thing from his sight. Kmily carefully Jdiy 36. JOSEPH HENSLEY. | wrapped up her hand in the cloth and left the room.

Freehold for Sale. ** The deuce take me,’’ growled the counsellor, «if I know

ypuat well known Freehold, of 55 acres, *« EGLANTINE | what is come to her to-day. She does not generally intrude

POINT,” Fortune Bay, formerly owned by Epwanp Apext, is her surgical learning. The successful amputation must have

aw offered for sale, of which a good and valid title can be given. For! turned her head. Well, let’s think no more of it, but return further particdiars apply to W.B. DEAN. | to our dinner.”

_epneend neem Oi pegs SM | To dinner, with ‘what appetites we might. I could not

For Sale swallow a bit. I had dined for a week—on that horrible dead

a » ail flesh. Presently in came Emily and sat down to table. HAT excellent stand for public business, known as | **Fall to, my friend,’’ said the hearty and hospitable

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about five miles from Hillsborough Ferry, 36 fe of and put nothing into my mouth. ** This fillet of roebuck is the lease unexpired, and subject toa ground rent of only 208. | gone to a turn.” va Soe ae -_ 2 oF — the first day of | }esirous to conceal the fact that the amputated hand had April next. for further particulars apply CORNELIUS CU. N. LITTLE, Jun. | ty my mouth. _ Charlottetown, February 4, 1856. «* What is the matter ?’’ asked the counsellor. Dieffenbach

al : looked inquiringly at me. Cash for Hides, ‘“T have a tooth that pains me,’ I replied.

— 4 OT neon he ethde Mabon ae ‘‘Do you suffer from a decayed tooth ?’’ hastily inquired pe ’ Emily. sh will be paid on delivery. ‘or CALF One lie begets another. ~‘ At times,’’.I answered, “‘ when gINe? : a pent, 2 le ee of capers eating, one of my double teeth is very apt to ache.” Chari ee ee ae Il. C. TROWAN ‘* We must have it out,’’ said Dieflenbach, in a tone of de- tices — 2 Baad tt see | cision that made me tremble for the mien of my thirty-two — im sound grinders. And up she jumped, and hurrying into the next room, returned instantly with an instrument-casc.

cut off my appetite, 1 took out my handkerchief and held it}

isineapable of such a mistake. You should rejoice, instead of lamenting. At the price of a momentary pang, you haye been saved from much suffering. The operation has been highly successful, thanks to my daughter's skill. If you com- plain now, what would you have done had your jaw been

must need repose. A short siesta willdo you no harm. If you will aecempany me, I will show you your room.”

I gladly accepted the offer, well pleased to leave at last a refuge from Nimrod’s gun and Dieffenbach’s instruments. My host led the way to a comfortable and well-furnished apartment, wished me a pleasant nap, and departed. Left alone, I fell to musing on the events of the day, and as I gazed through the window on the beautiful landscapes without, I thought to myself whata pity it was that such a charming re- sidence should be rendered intolerable by the vazaries of the owner's daughters. The old gentleman was far too indulgent —very weak indeed—and seemed to think Dieffenbach had done me a great service by robbing me of one of my teeth. J made up my mind soon to depart. I would wait to have a look at Oken, that my uncle might not be able to say I had not complied with his wish that I should see all the three daughters. As to stopping a week, it was out of the question. Before that time elapsed { should lose a leg or an arm at the hands of Dieffenbach, or be laid low by the bullets of Nimrod. More beautiful girls I had never seen, and doubted that handsomer existed ; but what is the value of beauty in whose presence there is no security for life and limb? My thoughts turned to the youngest sister, Ernestine. Judging from her portrait, she was of a softer mood than her elders. Her father’s

broken, as sometimes happens in tooth-drawing? But you)

really weakened me.

‘1 go too fast for you,’’ said tire counsellor, who observed that I had difficulty in keeping up with him ; and heslackened his pace. ‘‘My poor friend,’”’ he continued, ‘you little thougkt when you started on a pleasare-trip to Wiesenthal, that you would leave some of se blood behind you. IL cannot imagine what evil spirit has taken possession of m daughters. I assure you that they are the gentlest kin hearted creatures in the world.”

I ascribed this astonishing statement to paternal blindness, and, to avoid contradicting my host, I held my tongue.

‘* You must have been in real danger,’’ said Frager, apolegetically. ‘Emily has excellent jadgment and a quick eye, and certainly would not have bled you had it not been neces- wars and to lose a few ounces of blood never does any one 2arm.”’

[ began to lose all patience with this absurd old counsellor, who took his daughters’ mad freaks for so many proofs of skill and wisdom. I believe if they had cut my head off he would have maintained them to be perfectly justified by the precarious state of my health. I examined myscif to see if there were anything about me that could possibly afford Dieffenbach a pretext for another operation. Commencing with my head, [ travelled down to my feet, and rejoiced to find that, with the exception of my tortured mouth and

unctured arm, everything was ina perfectly natural and frealthy state. There was nothing to justify sf further practice of surgery upon my unfortunate person. resolyed to be extremely on my guard, and to lock the room door whenever I was alone,

The day was near its close when we returned to the house, where we found the supper-table spread. ‘The young ladies were all absent. Heaven only knew in which direction Nim- rod was out shooting, Diefenbach amputating, and Olen collecting spiders. I must confess to a greater wisi to see Oken than Minnie,; perhaps, would altogether have approved. At any rate, with her I should not be in bodily danger. She would hardly attempt to impale me on a corking-pin, like » beetle or a butterfly. I was very glad her two sisters did not make their appearance. To me their presence would have em- bittered the meal. We waiteda while, expecting their arrival, and the counsellor, who could not but remark or suppose that the impression made upon me by the occurrences of the morning was not particularly favourable, filled up the interval | with praises of his daughters, lauding the excellence of their | hearts, and pointing out how much better it was that they should have been suffered to grow up half wild in the country than that they should have been ex , without the guidance and protection of a mother, to the corrupt atmosphere and dangerous refinements of the town. When upon this theme Frager was inexhaustible. I never saw a man s0 much in love with his own children. At last he declared he would wait no longer for the girls, and we began supper. We had been at table about a quarter of an hour, when the door opened, and Oken, long-expected, came at last. Very different was the impression she made upon me to that produced by her sisters. She was quite as pretiy, but gentle and amiable in countenance and manner. She did not run past me, like Nim- rod and Dieffenbach, as if I had been a part of the furniture, but bowed her head gracefully and courteously, apologised for her tardy arrival, and added that had she known I was af¢ Wiesenthal, the most interesting researches in natural his- tory should not have withheld her from returning home to | welcome me. I-was delighted to find her so pleasing a contrast to her sisters, and, but for thoughts of Minnie, 1 should at once haye admitted myself vanquished by her charms. She was tastefully dressed—her hair just.a little blown about by the evening breeze. In her hand she carried a coyered basket, which she placed upon a.chair beside her when she sat down. The conversation turned on natural history. Out of cem- plaisance, and to win her good opinion, I feigned a lively ia- terest in the science, about which I had never in the least troubled my head. We were a most harmonious trio. Coun- sellor Frager was in the seyenth heayen. It was clear to the worthy man that Ernestine andI were born for each other. For my part, I forgot the disasters of the morning, and basked in the smiles of the lovely naturalist, who by this time was deep in the latest discoveries respecting amphibia. Cor- cerning these I neither knew nor cared anything, but I pro- tended profound attention, and gazed with delight on the lovely mouth that spoke so learnedly. It was quite a little lecture on reptiles. Presently Ernestine opened the basket beside her, and the next moment an extraordinary object writhed and danced within a few inches of my face. Its ap- pearance was so sudden that I did not at the instant recognise its nature, but when I did, 1 thought 1 should have fallen from my chair with terror. A living and very lively snake _stretched out towards me its horrible head and forked tonguo.

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death nor mutilation.

I would gladly have smoked a cigar, my custom of an after- noon, but the state of my g quite exhausted by the various extraordinary adventures that in 30 short a time had occurred to me, and I felt inclined to sleep. The afternoon was very warm, so I pulled off my ceat and laid myself down in my shirt-sleeves on a soft and ex- cellent sofa. Sleep soon closed my eyes, but it was neither a pleasant nor 2 refreshing slumber. The incidents of the day were reproduced and exaggerated in my dreams. First came

Louisa, and shot my nose completely off, as if it had been the

DAMEREL’S TAVERN, situated on the Georgetown | Frager, who saw that I did but play with my knife and fork, | beak of a popinjay at a shooting-match. Then Emily ap- t

peared with a horrible screw, which she insisted on passing through my head. The dream was a succession of ghastly visions, each one more painful and oppressive than its pre- decessor. 1 tossed about and groaned, and perspired with terror, but my persecutors would not leaye me. After Nimrod had shot a hole right through my body, so that the sun shone through, and the landscape behind me was visible to those in front, Diefenbach approached me, wearing a string round her neck, on which were strung my ‘thirty-one remaining teeth. So that I was as teothless as an old man of a hundred, and

over. Dieffenbach produced a long slender sharp-pointed in- strument of polished steel, and insisted upon operating upon

this, and made a desperate defenee, but all was in vain: in- visible hands seized me, fettered me, so that [ could not stir ;

ADMINISTRATION NOTICES. Sefton ‘ iv elf no trouble scount, Miss Emily,” ERSONS haying legal demands against the Estate of the I oan oe a iesaanby'-dlnitalanel™ 25 iss Emily

my breast was bared, and with a fiendish lengh, my persecutor

: drove the iron into my heart. Thereupon | screamed out loud

late Mrs. Caartotrz Dawson, Cottage Tavern, Saint |". We must have it out,’” repeated Emily, firmly. ‘* A bad!—and awoke. My dream was not all a dream, although it

eter’ ‘“ are ape ite » i * . . . Peter's Road, are hereby notified to render their Accounts, tooth is like a bad conscience, it may hestilled for a moment, but.

™ ail persons indebted are herchy requested to make imme- | aca | late peyment to Mr. Jlenry WwW. LonBan, at the Auction Mart, } ‘cc I am really extremely obliged to you,” said J deprecating- i

ent St r I | Kent Street. - Lael t Executors. ly, and observing with horror that the desperate alee drew City of Charlottetown, Oct, 22 1855 : R.G. &Isl from her case a hideous instrument, in form something between Aa a ee | a boat-hook and a corkscrew \ ALL persons having légal demands against the Hstate of « At least allow me to examine your teeth.” | ., , sous Dawson, late of Charlottetown Royalty, carperter, deceased,| ‘* Must really decline,’’ I replied, setting my jaws firmly | vastate, are hereby required to furnish the same without delay; and all together. ‘If I once open my mouth,’’ J thought to myself, | i yidlld oe ths echeuaee are hereby required to make imme- «+ this demon is capable of breaking every bit of ivory I have CATHERINE MINTO, ) Exeeutrix & Executor | 12 it.”” And I muttered a host of exctises which sufficiently” JOHN RIDER, i.” dkeeinl. | showed my aversion to operations on the tecth, Dieffenbach Charlottetown, January 17, 1856, R. G. & Ex. 4i, | did not seem to listen to me, but-drew an arm-eliair to the

seemed one to me for some seconds after.J opened my eyes.

bandaged, and from the vein a dark-red streamlet gushed into a basin, held by a maid-servant.

‘‘ Merciful heavens!’’ I exclaimed, already weakened by the loss of blood, ‘* what is all this?’’

‘‘ Hush, Hush!’’ said my murderess, for such I now held her to be; * keep yourself quiet, or you will bring on fever.”’ ‘* You want to bring me.to my grave.”

‘* By no means. By this prompt bleeding I haye probably saved you from it. Not aware that you were installed in this apartment, I accidentally entered, and found you in a high fever, quite delirious, There was nothing for it but the lancet. Soe how feverish your blood is.”

gums rendered it impossible. 1 was |

grievously did 1 bewail myself. But my sufferings were not! g

me for disease of the heart. I naturally protested against |

very encouraging, but at any rate with her one risked neither) | was almost beside myself. From my infancy upwards I had

held serpents of every kind in extraordinary respect. Oken detected my discomposure. ‘* What !’’ she exclaimed, laugh- ing scornfully, “‘ you would pass for a naturalist, and are afraid of a snake? Impossible !’’

And the accursed head, with its quivering tongue and bright beadlike eyes, drew nearer and nearer, Oken sceming to en- joy my manifest uneasiness.

*« For Heaven’s sake !’’ 1 cried, ‘‘ take away that horribie creature.”’

“‘T see nothing horrible in ii,’’ quictly replied Ernestine. ‘* Observe how gracefully iis body undulates.’’ | And again the reptile writhed itself just before my nose. I janet up and retreated. Ernestine followed me, snake in hand.

‘‘T have never been able to understand,’’ began the idistie counsellor, in a doctoral tone, ‘‘ whence arose the peculiar ayersion with which men regard all kind of reptiles.”’

‘* The deuce -yeu have not!”’ cried I, still retreating from Oken and her odious pet. ‘* The aversion is not very difficult to account for. For my part, I abhor the creatures ”’

«¢ Pshaw!’’ said Ernestine angrily ; *‘ you are a counterfeit naturalist.”’ And thereupon she slapped me across the face with the snake. I could not restrain a cry of horror and dis- ust. Then she returned to her seat, and put the yermin into its basket.

In my estimation the counsellor’s third daughter had now fallen into the same category with her sisters, Frager, who , saw that I was unable to conquer my innate horror of snakes, had ordered his daughter to discontinue her unseemly jest ; but | the poor old gentleman’s authority was evidently at a uiscount that day, and Oken, with diabolical malignity, had continued _ to torture me until the perspiration roiled off my forehead.

‘* Now may Old Nick fly away with all three of you,’’ said

duly attested, within three calendar months from this date ; ‘never rests. You are never sure of being an hour free frem| Emily stood before me, a lancet in her hand; my arm was) I to myself, as I passed my handkerchief across my dark brow,

| * You have seen the last of me at Wiesenthal. At daybreak \T pack up my traps and leave this place of torment, ‘worse than a cell of the inquisition, or a dungeon in Front de | Beeuf’s Castle..-A nice place to come a wooing !—snakes, bullets and tooth-drawing !—pleasant sveleome for a suitor!” | The evening wore wearily away. Miss Oken, having as _certained that | was no naturalist, adopted her sisters’ system, ‘and treated me with profound contempt ; in fact, she hardly ‘seemed aware of my presence. For my part, the sympath,

| with which she had at first inspired me had completely vanished

Frager was quite pat out by the change in his daughter's | demeanour, and of course ¢ast the blame vf if o8 me. f

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