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ANNIS WARLEIGH'S

FORTUNES.

BY HOLME LEE,

AUTHOR OF

"SYLVAN HOLT'S DAUGHTER,"
""WARP AND WOOF,"

ETC. ETC.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL.

M.DCCC.LXIII.

250. p. 120.

BODE

[The right of Translation is reserved.]

ANNIS WARLEIGH'S FORTUNES.

PART SECOND-continued.

SIR LAURENCE'S LITTLE WILDLING.

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

A RUMOUR, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done.-SHAKSPEARE.

I.

RACHEL WITHERS returned to Hurtledale two days after Annis was taken away from Bristowe, to find the rectory in serene possession of a new baby. It was a girl this time, and Rachel stood godmother, giving it her own plain name, which was presently exchanged for the ridiculous one of Sacharissa Tulip, a name which stuck by the injured child until she

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