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Cis spent her last night before setting out to try her fortune, Sunday / night, with Nan in the Dowling, pleasant, somewhat crowded little house.
Mr. Lucas had sent to Cicely the letter of introduction to his brother / in Beaconhite, promised her by Jeanette. Briefly, but forcibly, it / expressed Mr. Lucas' conviction that Cicely Adair was a person whose / ability and fidelity were of the highest order; that he, therefore, / felt no hesitation in asking his brother to place her to her advantage, / in acknowledgment of a debt which Mr. Lucas owed her and which he did / not hope ever fully to cancel.