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spare time, and deprived herself of
many hours of sleep.

About this time, as she was at work
one day in the kitchen, she heard a
familiar strain of music; hastily setting
down the dish which she was wiping,
she turned pale, and said, “That must
be the gipsy boy who went away eight
years ago.” She did not say this to
Diana, for Diana had gone away, and
there had been @ dozen cooks simce
her time; but she rushed out to the
end of the stone puilding, and was sur-
prised to see % young gentleman sit-
ting there, playing on the gipsy boy's
pipe. |