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Out of her sphere - University Library

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BEATEY LA YTOJV'S PROMISE. 17&<br />

have to look after him, as she looks after<br />

<strong>her</strong> mamma now. I dare say she will have<br />

sufficient tact to hide <strong>her</strong> successful manage-<br />

ment in the one case as thoroughly as she<br />

does now in the ot<strong>her</strong> ; and Audley,<br />

like a great many much cleverer men, has<br />

done one or two foolish things in his time.<br />

Foolish, not wicked, Miss Beatrice Layton,<br />

though folly, in this world, has a great<br />

deal more to answer for than sin. The<br />

greatest folly <strong>of</strong> all was, I think, not making<br />

<strong>her</strong> fully acquainted with his past. I<br />

suppose you know something <strong>of</strong> a young<br />

woman called Charlotte Clare, who gave<br />

<strong>her</strong> evidence, I am told, on the inquest<br />

with wonderful clearness and modesty. I<br />

do n't doubt it in the least, the hussy 1 and<br />

she seems to have done <strong>her</strong> very best to<br />

bring matters home to the poor fellow."<br />

" Yes— yes. What about <strong>her</strong> V<br />

" A good deal. Audley has charged me<br />

to let Miss Lisdale know everything at

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