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SUSAN HOPLEY.
CHAPTER XVI.
JULIA BEGINS TO RELATE THE HISTORY OF HER PARENTS.
"I will tell you nothing but the truth," said Julia, in answer to Mrs. Wetherall, who in compliance with Mr. Simpson's directions, had requested her to communicate as much as she might think proper of her history, in order that he might the better know how to serve her, "but to enable you to comprehend my story, I must first give you some account of my parents.—I almost fear to begin," she continued, after a short silence, and wiping away the tears that were gathering in her eyes—"you will repent of your charity, and of having sheltered such an one as I am under your roof."
"Indeed, I shall not," returned Mrs. Wetherall; "you have nothing to fear on that head,
