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CHAPTER VIII.

They had but four rooms in the cottage. Margaret slept in the biggest room up stairs, and her Grandaughter in a kind of closet adjoining, where he could be within hearing, if her Grandmother should call her in the night.

The girl was often disturbed in that manner—two or three times in a night she has been forced to leave her bed, to fetch her Grandmother's cordials, or do some little service for her—but she knew, that Margaret's ailings were real and pressing, and Rosamund never complained—neversuspected,