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A TALE

OF

ROSAMUND GRAY

AND

OLD BLIND MARGARET.



CHAPTER I.

It was noontide. The sun was very hot. An old Gentlewoman sat spinning in a little arbour at the door of her cottage. She was blind; and her Grandaughter was reading the Bible to her. The old Lady had just left her work, to attend to the story of Ruth.

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