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THE

DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.

CHAPTER I.

THE BEGINNING OF THE END.

"My child is yet a stranger in the world.

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years."

PARIAN!"

SHAKESPEARE.

No answer.

The sun had refused himself to everybody for the day, and persisted in being "not at home," till at the very last moment he peeped out, with a relenting smile, which might pass for a good night and a blessing.

A certain face, at a west chamber window, would not receive the tardy benediction, but its eyes, covered with a little plump hand, looked straight down into the bottomless gulf of an old portfolio.

"Plenty here, but nothing finished. The Woman in the Moon.' Lovely, as far as she goes. 'Ode to a Dying Dove.' Something the matter with its feet. Wish I could send an article to the Aurora.' As

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