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certain cure. After a time nobody could
recognize the Rovina of old times, new and
better affections had so beautified her. Louise
and Lizzie were always rare friends with her,
and after Alice Lisle went back to the city,
she never forgot the sweet old place, but
came every year to spend weeks and weeks
there among them.

The old Hilton house is again empty ; but
no more gloomy or uninviting. No, the Lisles
have left a charm on it, and it is so beautiful
to go there and wander through the still
rooms, no one will hear of its being torn
down. Indeed the young people have a habit
of holding a little féte there now and then ;
and the woodbines are trained, and the walks
round about so kept in order for the sake of
‘Auld Lang Syne,” it still looks cheerful.

Miss Wright, and the gray dress, have
retired from school long ago. She lives, now