All she desired, she told them, was to be left alone, until the
sister came for her in the afternoon. Sister Angelica arrived true to her appointment, and went at once to
the bedchamber. To her surprise she found Harriet lying on the bed,
just where the corpse of Anthony Pennell had lain, and apparently
asleep. “_Pauvre enfant!_” thought the kind-hearted nun, “grief has exhausted
her! I should not have attended to her request, but have watched with
her through the night! _Eh, donc! ma pauvre_,” she continued, gently
touching the girl on the shoulder, “_levez-vous! Je suis là._”

But there was no awakening on this earth for Harriet Pennell. She had
taken an overdose of chloral and joined her husband. When Margaret Pullen received the will which Harriet had left behind
her, she found these words with it, scribbled in a very trembling hand
upon a scrap of paper. “Do not think more unkindly of me than you can help. My parents have
made me unfit to live. Let me go to a world where the curse of heredity
which they laid upon me may be mercifully wiped out.”


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  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

  frontmatter: moved one page (beginning of publisher’s list of
               Latest Volumes) to the end and joined with the rest
               of the list for continuity

  page 10: ‘dared not say Bo!’ changed to ‘dared not say Boo!’

  page 53: ‘and generally kow-tooing’ changed to ‘and generally
           kow-towing’

  page 80: joined paragraphs of the same person speaking removing
           closing quotation mark at ‘The governess was so angry’

  page 124: ‘carrying a flimsey wrap’ changed to ‘carrying a flimsy
            wrap’

  page 202: ‘return with him to Hoosur’ changed to ‘return with him
            to Hosur’

  page 227: ‘who care more’ changed to ‘who cares more’

  page 285: ‘CHAPTER XVI’ changed to ‘CHAPTER XVII’

  page 285: ‘it it had not been for that’ changed to ‘if it had
            not been for that’

  page 317: ‘she returned to the Palazzo’ changed to ‘she returned
            to the palazzo’ for uniformity

  along with a few silent corrections to punctuation. Except for