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TOWARDS the end of the week we received a card from the town ladies. _Vicar of Wakefield_.
THE curate was gone, and the lessons suspended; otherwise -- as like each to each as sunshine or cloud permitted -- day followed day in the calm retreat of Brook-Green, -- when, one morning, Mrs. Leslie, with a letter in her hand, sought Lady Vargrave, who was busied in tending the flowers of a small conservatory which she had added to the cottage, when, from various motives, and one in especial powerful and mysterious, she exchanged for so sequestered a home the luxurious villa bequeathed to her by her husband.