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"Well, my dears," he said, kindly, as they went up to kiss hireeable has happened while I have been away"

"No, uncle," said Celia, "we have been to Freshitt to look at the

cottages We thought you would have been at home to lunch"

"I came by Lowick to lunch--you didn't know I caht a couple of pamphlets for you, Dorothea--in the library,

you know; they lie on the table in the library"

It see her

from despair into expectation They were pamphlets about the early

Church The oppression of Celia, Tantripp, and Sir Jaht to the library Celia went up-stairs Mr

Brooke was detained by a e, but when he re-entered the library,

he found Dorothea seated and already deep in one of the painal erly as she ht have taken in the scent of a fresh bouquet after a

dry, hot, dreary walk

She was getting away from Tipton and Freshitt, and her own sad

liability to tread in the wrong places on her way to the New Jerusales towards the

wood-fire, which had fallen into a wondrous s, and rubbed his hands gently, looking very mildly

towards Dorothea, but with a neutral leisurely air, as if he had