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PAUL CLIFFORD.
him of the rumours against his name, yet so easily restored was her trust in him, and so soothing the very thought of his vigilance and his love, that before an hour had passed, her eyes were closed in sleep; the drawing was laid, as a spell against grief, under her pillow, and in her dreams she murmured his name, and unconscious of reality and the future, smiled tenderly as she did so!
