Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 67: what you’re looking at

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58 GUY HAMMERSLEY CHAPTER IX. A SUDDEN MOVE. Tuer hotel at which the Farleighs were stopping was within walking distance of the Hammersleys’ board- ing-house, and within twenty minutes our friends found themselves in a sunny room, being warmly welcomed by a tall girl with a deep, rich voice and a strangely sweet face. ‘‘I am so glad to see you, Mrs. Hammersley,” she said, as she gave that lady’s hand a lingering pressure. ‘* You know all my friends in this country are men, and though they are very kind, yet I hun- ger at times for a confidential chat with some one who will remind me of my sister. You know Ward and I have never been away from her before. She has taken care of us ever since mamma died.” Poor girl! she was only eighteen, and so homesick, and the sight of Mrs. Hammersley’s motherly face went straight to her heart and impelled her to make all these confidences in a breath, as it were. While she was speaking a young fellow of sixteen entered the room, and was at once presented as ‘* brother Ward.” Guy took to him at once, as how could he help EM PMIC LOO KS,(EC) m