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And Alan Walcott saw the paragraph , and felt that he had not yet quite done with his past , and wondered at the dispensation of Providence which permitted the writers of such paragraphs to live and thrive . But a good deal was to happen before that paragraph was printed ; and in the meantime Dalton and Campion went off to look for partners in a rubber , without supposing for a moment that they had delivered a stab in the back to one who had never done an injury to either of them . The day following that on which Sydney Campion paid his afternoon visit to his club in Pall Mall was one of considerable importance to his sister Lettice . She was an early riser , and generally contrived to write half-a-dozen pages of easy translation or straightforward fiction before ten o'clock . That was the hour when she was due in her mother 's room , to help her in dressing , and to settle her comfortably in her arm-chair , with her Bible and spectacles at her side , and a newspaper or magazine waiting its turn after the lessons for the day had been read . Mrs. Campion was growing very feeble , both in mind and in body , but she got through her waking hours with a fair amount of satisfaction , thanks to the attention which was paid to all her wants and wishes . Lettice did not suffer anything to interfere with the regular routine which she had marked out for her mother 's comfort .