Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 326: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXXYV. “HAZEL, DO YOU—WILL YOU LOVE MEY’ -Y HILE Hazel and her mother * had been absorbed in each ; other up stairs, Lord Nelson < and his grandmother dis- =~ cussed the romantic ending 243). of what had seemed likely to “It is the most wonderful thing that ITever heard of! Just to think of her being Emelie Earlescourt’s child!” said the duchess, hardly able to realize it even then. “It is, indeed, a strange story from beginning to end,” Lord Nelson replied. “Mrs. Earlescourt’s his- tory is a very romantic one, and Miss Graham’s scarcely less so, young as slie is.” “T can account now for Hazel’s natural grace and refinement; with such a mother she could have been nothing less than sheijis. There are few women in the world like Emelie,” said her grace, thoughtfully. “That is very true,” returned her grandson, ‘‘and I have felt from the first that Hazel’s parentage must pools be above criticism. I suppose, now, your grate wan