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CHAPTER II.
Rosamund had just made an end of her story (as I was about to relate) and was listening to the application of the moral (which said application she was old enough to have made herself, but her Grandmother still continued to treat her in many respects as a child, and Rosamund was in no haste to lay claim to the title of womanhood) when a young Gentleman made his appearance, and interrupted them.
It was young Allan Clare, who had brought a present of peaches, and some roses, for Rosamund.
He
