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OLD MR. TREDGOLD
BY
MRS. OLIPHANT
AUTHOR OF “IN TRUST,” “MADAM,” ETC.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY
1896
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OLD MR. TREDGOLD.
CHAPTER I.
They were not exactly of that conventional type which used to be commonwhenever two sisters had to be described—the one dark and the otherfair, the one sunny and amiable, the other reserved and proud; the onegay, the other melancholy, or at least very serious by nature. They werenot at all like Minna and Brenda in the “Pirate,” which used to be acontrast dear to the imagination. But