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CHAPTER XLI

CONTAINING FRESH

DISCOVERIES, AND

SHOWING THAT SUPRISES,

LIKE MISFORTUNES,

SELDOM COME ALONE

er situation was, indeed, one of no common trial and
Hdifficulty.
While she felt the most eager and burning desire to
penetrate the mystery in which Oliver’s history was envel-
oped, she could not but hold sacred the confidence which
the miserable woman with whom she had just conversed,
had reposed in her, as a young and guileless girl. Her words
and manner had touched Rose Maylie’s heart; and, mingled
with her love for her young charge, and scarcely less intense
in its truth and fervour, was her fond wish to win the out-
cast back to repentance and hope.
They purposed remaining in London only three days,

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