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On the second of January, in the year 1880, three newly-orphaned sisters, finding themselves left to their own devices, with an income of exactly one hundred pounds a year a-piece, sat down to consult together as to the use they should make of their independence.
The place where they sat was a grassy cliff overlooking a wide bay of the Southern Ocean -- a lonely spot, whence no sign of human life was visible, except in the sail of a little fishing boat far away.