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THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE

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THE HEIR APPARENT

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CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS,

CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE

AND

THE HEIR APPARENT

CHAPTER I

WHEN Agnes went upstairs after this genial but interrupted meal she was met by her sister's maid, who begged her to go at once to Lady Frogmore.

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My lady's very restless," said the attendant, who was something more than a maid, the same who had brought her home after her

recovery.

"You don't think there's anything wrong ?" said Agnes, breathless, for notwithstanding the tranquillity of so many years, any trifle was enough to rouse her anxieties.

"Oh, I hope not," said the maid.

This was enough, it need not be said, to

VOL. III.

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