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He took his hat, and
with a low bow quitted the house and drove away.
Lindy threw herself in a passion on the sofa and burst into a flood of
tears. She had played her last card and had lost.


CHAPTER XVII.
AN INFORMAL INTRODUCTION.

When Quincy drove into the barn he found Jim Cobb there, and he turned
the horse over to him. Entering by the back door he passed through the
kitchen without seeing either Mandy or Mrs. Crowley, and went slowly
upstairs. The house was very quiet. He remembered that Uncle Ike had
gone to Eastborough Centre and 'Zekiel had gone to Deacon Mason's. It
was necessary for him to pass the door of the room occupied by Alice
Pettengill in order to reach his own room. The door of her room was
open. He involuntarily glanced in and then stood still.
What vision was this that met his eye? The sun, now dropping to the
westward, threw its rays in at the window and they fell upon the head of
the young girl seated beside it.
The hair was golden in the sunlight, that real golden that is seldom
seen excepting on the heads of young children.


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