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AGNES GREY.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
MIRTH AND MOURNING.
The first of June arrived at last; and Rosalie Murray was transmuted into Lady Ashby. Most splendidly beautiful she looked in her bridal costume.
Upon her return from church after the ceremony, she came flying into the school-room, flushed with excitement, and laughing...half in mirth, and half in reckless desperation...as it seemed to me.
"Now, Miss Grey, I'm Lady Ashby!" she exclaimed. "It's done! my fate is sealed...there's no drawing back now! I'm come to
