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"You would like to wear them?" exclai her whole person with a draht from that very Madame Poincon ore the ornaments "Of course, then, let us have them out Why did you not tell ainst the sides of her head and seemed to despair of her memory

"They are here," said Celia, hoed

"Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box

" The casket was soon open before theht parterre on the table It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of re a necklace of purple aold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it Dorothea immediately took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister's neck, where it fitted almost as closely as a bracelet; but the circle suited the Henrietta-Maria style of Celia's head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the pier-glass opposite

"There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin But this cross younot to smile with pleasure "O Dodo, you must keep the cross yourself"

"No, no, dear, no," said Dorothea, putting up her hand with careless deprecation

"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you--in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly "You _ht_ wear that"

"Not for the world, not for the world A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket" Dorothea shuddered slightly

"Then you will think it wicked in me to wear it," said Celia, uneasily

"No, dear, no," said Dorothea, stroking her sister's cheek "Souls have complexions too: ill suit one will not suit another"

"But you ht like to keep it for s of mamma's--her sandal-wood box which I as In fact, they are all yours, dear We need discuss theer There--take away your property"

Celia felt a little hurt There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution

"But how can I wear ornaments if you, who are the elder sister, will never wear them?"

"Nay, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance If I were to put on such a necklace as that, I should feel as if I had been pirouetting The world would go round with me, and I should not knoalk"