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AWAITING THE VERDICT.
"You look quite settled and at home," the Young Doctor remarked, as he offered Mrs.Crozier a chair.

She took it, for never in her life had she felt so small physically since coming to the great, new land.

The islands where she was born were in themselves so miniature that the minds of their people, however small, were not made to feel insignificant.

But her mind, which was, after all, vastly larger in proportion than the body enshrining it, felt suddenly that both were lost in a universe.