THE GIRL'S OWNPAPER

ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.

By JESSIE MANSERGH (Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey), Author of "A Girl in Springtime," "Sisters Three," etc.

THE INTRODUCTION. (See CHAP. III.)

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CHAPTER I.

The afternoon post had come in, andthe Vicar of Renton stood in the largebay window of his library reading hisbudget of letters. He was a tall, thinman, with a close shaven face, whichhad no beauty of feature, but which waswonderfully attractive all the same. Itwas not an old face, but it was deeplylined, and those who knew and lovedhim best could tell the history andmeaning of each of those eloquenttracings. The deep vertical mark runningup the forehead meant sorrow. Ithad been stamped there for ever on thenight when Hubert, his first-born, hadbeen brought back, cold and lifeless,from the river to which he had hurriedforth but an hour before, a picture ofhappy boyhood, in his white boatingflannels. The Vicar's brow had beensmooth enough before that day; thefurrow was graven to the memory ofTeddy, the golden-haired lad who hadfirst taught him the joys of fatherhood.The network of little lines about theeyes were caused by the hundred andone little worries of every-day life, andthe strain of working a delicate body{18}to its fullest pitch; and the two long,deep streaks down the cheeks boretestimony to that happy sense of humourwhich showed the bright side

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