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"Here is to your health, ministrant spirit!" he said He sed

the contents and returned it to , sir"

"They don't look grave and e?"

"Not at all: they are full of jests and gaiety"

"And Mason?"

"He was laughing too"

"If all these people came in a body and spat at me, ould you

do, Jane?"

"Turn them out of the rooo to thely ast each other, and then

dropped off and left o with

them?"

"I rather think not, sir: I should have

with you"

"To comfort me?"

"Yes, sir, to comfort you, as well as I could"