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THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER
VOL. VIII.--NO. 353.
OCTOBER 2, 1886.
Price One Penny.
MERLE'S CRUSADE.
BY ROSA NOUCHETTE CAREY, Author of "Aunt Diana," "For Lilias," etc.
[Illustration: "'WHAT A PITY YOU STOPPED ME JUST THEN.'"]
CHAPTER I.
THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION.
"Merle, I may be a little old-fashioned in my notions; middle-aged
people never adjust their ideas quite in harmony with you young folk,
but in my day we never paused to count fifty at a full stop."
Aunt Agatha's voice startled me with its reproachful irritability. Well,
I had deserved that little sarcasm for I must confess that I had been
reading very carelessly. My favourite motto was ringing in my ears,
"_Laborare est orare_."
Somehow the words had set themselves to resonant music in my brain; it
seemed as though I were chanting them inwardly all the time I was
climbing down the steep hill with Christiana and her boys.
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