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                     THE OPEN DOOR, AND THE PORTRAIT

                   Stories of the Seen and the Unseen

                     By Margaret O. Wilson Oliphant

                                 1881




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THE OPEN DOOR.


I took the house of Brentwood on my return from India in 18--, for the
temporary accommodation of my family, until