A
PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
Mrs. Swancourt arose and
left
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the room,
going up-stairs to Elfride's apartment.
At the door was Unity, who occupied
new estabhshment
the
in
a position between
Young-lady's maid and middle-housemaid. '
She
sound
is
ma'am,' Unity
asleep,
whispered.
Mrs. Swancourt opened the door.
was lying full-dressed on the bed, her
fride
face hot
At
El-
and
red, her
intervals of a
lessly
arms thrown abroad.
minute she tossed
from side to
moaned words used
rest-
and indistinctly
side,
in the
game
of chess.
Mrs. Swancourt had a turn for doctor-
and
ing,
felt
her pulse.
It
was twanging
like a harp-string, at the rate of nearly
hundred a minute. Softly moving the ing girl to a
little
less
cramped
two
sleep-
position,
she went down-stairs again. '
She
court.
is '
asleep
now,' said Mrs. Swan-
She does not
seem very
well.
Cousin Knight, what were you thinking of? her tender brain won't bear cudgelling like
