d.

"Yes," said Rachel; "I--I don't expect to live long, and it won't make
much difference."

"I congratulate you, _Mrs. Smith_," said Mary Crump, heartily; "and I
wish you a long and happy life, I am sure."

It is observed that, since her marriage, Aunt Rachel's fits of
depression are less numerous than before. She has even been seen to
smile repeatedly, and has come to bear, with philosophical equanimity,
her nephew Jack's sly allusions to her elopement.

One word more. At the close of her term of confinement, Peg came to Mrs.
Clifton, and reminded her of her promise. Dick was dead, and she was
left alone in the world. Imprisonment had not hardened her as it so
often does. She had been redeemed by the kindness of those she had
injured. Mrs. Clifton secured her a position in which her energy and
administrative ability found fitting exercise, and she leads a laborious
and useful life, in a community where her antecedents are not known.

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