The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 99 VIII. May a2 The nearer the time has come for Aunt Winifred to go, the more it has seemed impossible to part with her. I have run away from the thought like a craven, till she made me face it this morning, by saying decidedly that she should go on the first of the week. I dropped my sewing; the work-basket tipped over, and all my spools rolled away under the chairs. I had a little time to think while I was picking them up. " There is the rest of my visit at Norwich to be made, you know," she said, "and while I am there I shall form some definite plans for the summer; I have hardly decided what, yet. I had better leave here by the seven o'clock train, if such an early start will not incommode you.") I wound up the last spool, and turned away to the window. There was a confused, dreary sky of scurrying clouds, and a cold wind was

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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