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Updated: May 12, 2025
She wore the plain white robes, bordered and zoned with crimson, of a patrician lady, but save one massive signet on the third finger of her right hand she had no gem or ornament whatever; and as she sat a little way aloof from her younger companions, drawing the slender threads with many a graceful motion from the revolving distaff into the basket by her side, she might have passed for her, whose proud prayer, that she might be known not as the daughter of the Scipios but as the mother of the Gracchi, was but too fatally fulfilled in the death-earned celebrity of those her boasted jewels.
In the Purser's opinion, this settled the question; and it is to be hoped that the widow duly received her husband's death-earned wages. Shenly was dead and gone; and what was Shenly's epitaph? opposite his name in the Purser's books, in "Black's best Writing Fluid" funereal name and funereal hue meaning "Discharged, Dead."
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