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"Oh no, mamma, only because he is Bob"

"Well,ainst him"

"But"--here Rosamond's face broke into a sht unfavorably of these dieneral society "But I shall notood as refused the pick of

theirl better

deserves it"

"Excuse me, mamma--I wish you would not say, 'the pick of them'"

"Why, what else are they?"

"I ar expression"

"Very likely, ood speaker What should I say?"

"The best of them"

"Why, that seems just as plain and common If I had had ti men' But with your

education you must know"

"What must Rosy know, h the half-open door while the ladies were bending

over their work, and now going up to the fire stood with his back