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"You are getting pale again, my dear child," said Mr. Rayner to me the very next morning -- he met me, at the foot of the stairs, dressed for my walk with Haidee. "We must find some means of bringing those most becoming roses back to your cheeks again. You work too hard at those self-imposed evening tasks, I am afraid."
"Oh, no, indeed I don't, Mr. Rayner! I am getting very lazy; I haven't done anything for two or three nights."