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CERTAINTY AND HE POSE. 



haps with hope, for I applied myself to work more steadily 

 than ever. 



On the same anniversary the cheerful spring-time of the 

 following year on a Saturday, when the church was open ; 

 two persons were seen loitering in it. They were an aged 

 woman of comely figure and mild though then overclouded 

 aspect, and a youth of about seventeen, and they repaired pre- 

 sently from the aisle to the chancel, where they stood together, 

 hand-in-hand, before a simple tablet let into the wall. The 

 names of three individuals had been graven successively upon 

 the marble, that of a mother, who had died young a father 

 (late vicar of the parish) and a child, their only child Lucy, 

 who had followed them at the age of fourteen. 



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