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Depressed with reaction and heavy with unwonted sleeping by daylight, she was glad to go from her dressing-table to the carriage waiting to take herself and her aunt for the customary drive. It was but a moment before her mind was startled into its accustomed activity.
"Mr. Warner has disappeared again. " Mrs. Nunn tilted her lace parasol against the slanting sun. "Poor Maria!"