Sisters
Sisters
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now--was she beginning to fancy this young Lloyd? Doctor
Strickland was surprised with the fervour with which he repudiated
the thought. Anne had been admired, she must go to her own home
some day. But her uncle hoped that it would be a neighbouring
home; this young engineer, who had drifted already into a dozen
different and distant places, was not the man for staid little
Anne. He was twenty-eight years old, but it was not the
discrepancy in years that mattered. The doctor had himself been
twelve years older than his wife. No, it was something less
tangible--
"What did you want to see Mr. Lloyd about to-morrow, Dad?" Cherry interrupted his thoughts to ask.
"The rose vine!" her father reminded her.
"You'll never get that back on the roof!" Alix looked up to assure him discouragingly. "I told you, when you were pruning it," she added vivaciously, "that you were cutting too deep. No--you knew it all! Now the first wind brings it down all over the place, and you get exactly what you deserve!"
Her t
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