Notes

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nowhere in particular isn’t it?”

She bent forward, kissed her reflection affectionately, and betook herself to the open window.

T4. Mrs. Rachel was not often sick and had a well-defined contempt for people who were; but grippe, she assented, was like no other illness on earth and could only be interpreted as one of the special visitations of Providence.

U4. ; the only flowers there were myriads of delicate ‘June bells’, those shyest and sweetest of woodland blooms, and a few pale aerial star-flowers, like the spirits of last year’s blossoms.

V4. wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses, splashed with ruddy evening sunshine;