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304 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

I should say they will be done to a turn by<br />

this ; and mashed potatoes do get so dry if<br />

they're kept long waiting."<br />

"Don't let us keep supper waiting on<br />

any account, madam," said Temple Masters.<br />

" I'll acquaint Mrs. Thornton with every-<br />

thing when it's over. She will certainly<br />

look in the papers for the future, unless,<br />

in time, she gets weary <strong>of</strong> reading <strong>her</strong> own<br />

praises in them."<br />

That httle compliment set Mrs. Thorn-<br />

ton quite at <strong>her</strong> ease. Flattery and praise<br />

were the very breath <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> life, and she<br />

seemed to have been perishing for want <strong>of</strong><br />

them while at St. Hilda. She drew up to<br />

the table, and in two or three minutes was<br />

eating <strong>her</strong> supper as heartily, and laughing<br />

over it as merrily, as if all <strong>her</strong> life had been<br />

as mere a comedy as that which she had<br />

been enacting on the stage.<br />

The rabbits, smot<strong>her</strong>ed in onions, were,<br />

as Mrs. Harrup had expressed it, done to a

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