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That gave Mary an opening for one of those lectures which were so much a part of Ha
‘Sin often comes in the guise of beauty. That is why it is so easy to fall into temptation.’
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When she was alone Ha
But how Ha
She would tell no one of the pleasure she derived from looking down on the noisy excitement of St. James’s Market.
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Ha
Five years of living comfortably—at least as comfortably as one could live in such close proximity with sin—had softened them. Mary was disturbed—not that she believed her brother would see her go hungry, he was too good a man for that; but a strange woman in the house would be sure to change something and Mary trembled for the future.
She need not have feared. Aunt Lydia proved a meek and docile wife—a true Quaker, a virtuous woman who would no more have thought of turning out her sister in law and her fatherless child than she would of taking a lover.
After the first mild difficulties of settling down Mary and Ha
In spite of having three able-bodied women in the household Henry Wheeler could afford to employ a servant and he took into his household a young woman of Ha
They called her Jane, and Jane’s coming made a great deal of difference to Ha
It was Jane who caught Ha
‘It makes them both happy, so they say, Miss Ha
Ha
Jane was surprised by the ignorance of Ha
So Ha
It was not easy to turn one’s eyes away from the busy world when it was one’s doorstep.
‘It’s no life for a girl, Miss Ha
Ha
It turned out that he was Mr. H. and he was really ‘far gone’ on Jane.
On the way home Jane said it was a shame that Ha
And when she returned to St. James’s Market Ha