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of tenderness towards her sisters who stood apart from the royal feast;
towards Cecil with her blighted love, Sophie with her blighted health,
with the thousand others for whom they stood as types; the countless
hordes of women workers for whom life was a monotonous round of grey-
hued days, shadowed by the prospect of age and want. From the shelter
of her lover's arms, Claire Gifford vowed herself to the service of her
working sisters. From the bottom of her heart she thanked God for the
year of work which had taught her to _understand_.

THE END.

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