Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 105: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII. HAZEL SEEKS A SITUATION, ANTED—A YOUNG LADY, ABOUT EIGHTEEN or nineteen, who has just completed her education, | and would like a position as governess and companion to | a iniss of fifteen. Must have the best of references, both as to character and capability. Apply in person or by letter at No,— Hyde Park Corner, London, during the last week in June, between the hours of twelve and two daily. This was the advertisement which caught the eye of Hazel Gay one afternoon during the second week in June, while she was looking over the daily paper. “T believe that is just what I want,” she said, a quick flush suffusing her beautiful face. She read it over again, slowly and carefully, and then sat a long time, a serious look in her eyes, as if thoughtfully considering some important subject. “T will doit,” she said at last, in a resolute tone; and taking a pair of scissors from her work-basket, she cut'the advertisement out and transferred it to her pocket-book. In about two weeks Hazel was to graduate from the school where she had been a pupil for so many years. For more than a year the question, ‘What shall I do when my school days are over?” had weighed heavily on her heart. OBR C Om