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THE TENANT

CHAPTER XII.


"The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."


Though Mr. Lawrence's health was now quite re-established, my visits to Woodford were as unremitting as ever; though often less protracted than before. We seldom talked about Mrs. Huntingdon; but yet we never met without mentioning her, for I never sought his company but with the hope of hearing something about her, and he never sought mine at all, because he saw me often enough without.