Part 7 That was two days before Christmas Eve. “I wonder,” said Ramage, “that more girls don’t think as you do and want to strike out in the world. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. I would even have taken a place as waitress in a tea shop. Then it was the woman herself who was changed. ’ ‘But what do you want it for, miss?’ ‘But to protect myself. "Poor thing!" muttered he, as the widow departed on her errand, "she's seen better days and better circumstances than she'll ever see again, I'm sure. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters— and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. She felt a new warmth in her blood, a strange sense of elation crept over her. It will do its best to overlook things—” “If we let it, poor dear. He saw her young and graceful back as she descended from the carriage, severely ignoring him, and recalled a glimpse he had of her face, bright and serene, as his train ran out of Wimbledon. I wish nothing at all from them. It was in no sense confessional; it was a state of mind in the patient the doctor had already anticipated. For if the likeness between the sisters was remarkable, the likeness between this girl and the poster which he had come from studying was more remarkable still.
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