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"Did you in all your life ever see anyone so changed as that pretty Mrs. / Beacham? Not less pretty, I don't mean that; but she looks pale and / serious, and to my thinking still more like a lady than she did when she / was married!"
The words were Kate Vavasour's -- bright, cheerful, merry Kate -- who was / walking home on Christmas-day from church with her brother Horace -- a / "public man" now, and a very occasional and not over-willing visitor to / his old home.