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@1CHAPTER I^
@4THE TWO SISTERS@1^
When Egbert Dormer died he left his two daughters utterly penniless upon the
world, and it must be said of Egbert Dormer that nothing else could have been
expected of him. The two girls were both pretty, but Lucy, who was
twenty-one, was supposed to be simple and comparatively unattractive, whereas
Ayala was credited---as her somewhat romantic name might show---with poetic
charm and a taste for romance. Ayala when her father died was nineteen.
<\We must begin yet a little earlier and say that there had been---and had
died many years before the death of Egbert Dormer---a clerk in the Admiralty,
by name Reginald Dosett, who, and whose wife, had been conspicuous for
personal beauty. Their charms were gone, but the records of them had been left
in various grandchildren. There had been a son born to Mr Dosett, who was also
a Reginald and a clerk in the Admiralty, and who also, in his turn, had been a
handsome man. With him, in his decadence, the reader will . . .
