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WHAT had happened at Aldborough in Captain Wragge's absence? Events had
occurred which the captain's utmost dexterity might have found it hard
to remedy.
As soon as the chaise had left North Shingles, Mrs. Wragge received
the message which her husband had charged the servant to deliver. She
hastened into the parlor, bewildered by her stormy interview with the
captain, and penitently conscious that she had done wrong, without
knowing what the wrong was. If Magdalen's mind had been unoccupied by
the one idea of the marriage which now filled it--if she had possessed
composure enough to listen to Mrs. Wr
