Chapter 4 - (VERSO)

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would, to use a slang term, have any ‘pull’ with Andrew Cameron, and she is not acquainted with him herself.  Well, I must be going; we’ll see you at the manse on Saturday, I hope, Miss Lloyd. The circle meets there, you know.”

“Yes, I know,” said the Old Lady absently absently. When the minister’s wife had gone she dr dropped her sweet-grass basket and sat for a long, long time with her hands lying idly in her lap, and her big black eyes staring uns unseeingly at the wall before her.

Old Lady Loyd, so pitifully poor that she had to eat six crackers the less a week to pay her fee to the Sewing Circle, knew that it was