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CHAPTER VI.
LUCY’S FRIENDS.

Ar the same school with Lucy and Maryw a
young girl named Ann Noel, who, wanting talent,
or industry and perseverance enough to become
a good scholar, had yet sufficient shrewdness to
perceive Lucy’s weak point, and, by flattering her
vanity, to obtain her aid in the performance of
her tasks at school. Her flattery became doubly
grateful when Lucy had ascertained that she lived
in a very handsome house, which was furnished
with great elegance; but when Lucy had heard
Miss Ann Noel play a very simple tune in very
bad time on a beautiful rosewood piano, and had
been informed by her that she attended a dancing-
school where they sometimes gaye fancy balls,
and that to the next fancy ball she intended to