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 HOME AT THE HAVEN.



 CHAPTER I.

 FINDING A HOMIE.

 WO children and their mother were together
 one morning in the front parlour of a small
 house in the outskirts of London. That
 the mother was a widow could be seen by
her dress, and that she had suffered much sorrow, and
was still full of anxiety, might easily be perceived by
any one who noticed her pale and care-worn counten-
ance. The children--a boy and girl-did not show
any signs of care upon their faces, though they were
not so lively, perhaps, as they would have been, had
their mother not been so sorrowful, and had not the
remembrance of their father's death been still fresh in
their minds. They were living too, just then, with
their mother, in lodgings, after leaving a much plea-
santer home, and their mother was full of uncertainty
as to where they might settle for life.
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