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CHAPTER XII.
THE BEAUTIFUL SOUL.

Tux weather was very fine, and for a fortnight
Lucy continued to walk every morning with
evident benefit to her health, and, doubtless,
with a favourable influence on her lameness,
though that was not yet perceptible. As she
had never received a rude word, or even look,
in her walks, her confidence daily increased,
and she began to congratulate herself that she
had ceased to dread the ridicule of others, and
thus overcome the last symptom of vanity. It
was not long before her self-complacency was
most painful disturbed.

Mary had recommenced her attendance at Mrs.
Butler’s school, although she went with great
reluctance, at first, without Lucy. As Wash-