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dust
Machine
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been
widow and an
with
only
child,
of
little
this house, less than a
hundred
a
a
TIMBER
Mrs.
the tion
of
a
Head
CEDAR,
had made
Majoribanks sufficient for the home wherein was
she
now
past
daughter
was.
preserva daintiest
twenty-five
;
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5,
November
24
Boxing Day,
December
26th,
of New
Bank
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run
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Perth,
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if
did Eva she had
herself not
sat
ever
realise:
so
tenderly
:
alone.
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I faith, suppose," thing in inheriting " she said to herself, and poor mam ma's blood tells." Protestant Mrs.. in her inheritance told, Majoribanks' to herself, reticence in all that related even her and not daughter guessed the depth of that piety which sought no outward but enabled, expression, to her down that lay everything her would have been for comfort,
for
Sight-Testing
&
CLARKE
Majoribanks
in
anyone
to and sympathetically reading poor old blind Betty all Sunday afternoon, but had taken her mother's in place her the kitchen, mother could have too. to Mass As it was, Eva. gone her felt the unspoken of opinion friends, and had a latent her supicion she cared more self that for the sweet of her faith than did her practices " there mother. After is some all,
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haye gotten made my beds, washed and swept and dusted,
down
lie
for
anything
day,
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an on as effort accepted part to conceal her mother's saw indifference. No one the slow for breath the frequent steps, pauses on the stairs, the thin face drawn by the pain in the tortured head, with went which Mrs. Majoribanks about her duties on while Sunday morning, to Eva went help in the choir.
she
said No, only good for nothing," and trying Majoribanks rising to speak- cheerfully. Every morn not ing I feel as though I could get do through the day, but T always are a fashion. There a good after many steps to be taken, Eva, and by
you
run
12th.
October
run
Caulfield,
CUP, 25,000
HANDICAP,
CUP,
the
feel
last down.
helped
do so much luncheon."
useful
the
Perth.
PRIZE at
"
time
TO.
ALL'S
Barrack-st.,
MONSTER NORTHAM
Mrs.
the
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CHARLES).
J.
that
weariness in her mother's delicate face and the her weakness in voice struck Eva with a passing pang. Majoribanks you
etc.
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etc.,
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person to do." " You do a great I Eva deal, don't understand how you have really I feel for it. aren't strength that you so able to undertake much," said her 'mother.
"
getting
and both in parochial she was un works of private charity a mother had become Her tiring. Catholic in her girlhood, and Eva was Her friends born in the Church. between the pointed out the difference sweet of the girl and the lukepiety warmness of her mother. Very few absent from days found the daughter Mrs. Mass, while Majoribanks was often even on She Sunday. missing was woman no such a reserved that one too exhausted from knew she was and Saturday's Friday's sweeping to take the walk from her own baking door to the church, and Eva's lightly " to is not well Mother .uttered, very
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:
Something
that
are
my life." Eva
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COUNTRY
go on another day." But Miss not did Majoribanks hear. to She was finish a hurrying and was so used to her mother's note, that she was tired that tbe saying to her ears words came like an old re with frain little She very meaning. sealed her note and sprang up, say " I've told Mrs. ing There, Woods I'd that take charge the of buying for the festi candy and decorations I think that val. is enough for one
of
malt
You don't
!
KALGOORLIE.
DEALS,
SKIRTINGS,
Building
floor,
sometimes
that
never
PERTH.
STREET,
MATCHBOARD,
and her and Mrs.
she said
down
sinking it
Eva/'
tired,
so
Yes,
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CO.,
IRON FREMANTLE
chairs.
I'm
WOOD,
&
Branches:
MOULDINGS,
She gently freed from her duster the syringa-bush with which it had become entangled, and sighed as she knelt to wipe the dust from the claw feet of her old-fashioned mahogany "
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you
"Lie down and rest!" echoed jMrs. Major ibanks, " as her daughter shut the door. I. wonder what of the house if I left would become undone ? Dear Eva !" everything waved her she added, as h,er daughter hand to her as she hastened down the " how useful she is and I walk,
tired.
was
Majoribanks
sixty,
KELT,
Office:
DOOR SASHES,
artistic and plenty refinement, feeling, of books, if none of the splendour a large which income might have al lowed.
And
ST
&
STEAM
;
sum
WILLIAM
& Co.,
LIMITED,
and much sacrifice economy in a manner to her on this suitable birth and breeding as a gentlewoman but by the exercise of care, by dint of her own and housework, doing by of her own all up thought giving pleasure,
128
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a
close, to live,
required
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year.
us,
PURSER
growing Are
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had
income
write
dear
not
older.
grow ?"
"
RICHD.
Majoribanks an
Best
till
town. left
the
out,
I
am
I
suppose
woman
PROVE
BEST
want
You
.
shook Marjoribanks out of the window into the syringablossoms. busb, laden with fragrant house Her stood back from the street, and had an asphalt walk dividing its neat little a remnant of the lawn, instead of being days when the street, one of solid brick blocks in the mid dle of a busy city, had been a street of individual houses in a peaceful Mrs.
as
I am going to see that poor to visit whom they gave me at and I the Associated Charities, how Alice is : down to see may run her is so since the poor thing lonely an Miss Majoribanks baby died," towards the door. swered, going half a dozen of I'll send you home
& SEEDER
Market. Mrs.
I
going
CULTIVATOR
an
Exchange.
the
hausted. stronger "
Story.
Amies
"
THE
ROLLED
STEEL
Danks Sons',
&
No one receives less injustice, even, from those who love her, than the woman who is never well, yet is never It so much becomes downright ill. a matter of course that she should be unequal to her that efforts, daily no one the martyrdom of guesses
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constant and the renewal, become aching head and weary flesh so a of her life that part thoroughly an of. her is augmentation suffering not a matter concern to of much any
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