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As Wilford's question concerning his sire had been the last one asked, so it was the last one answered, hishis dark hair with her jeweled hand, and telling him first that with the exception of a cold taken at the park on Saturday afternoon when she drove out to try the new carriage, she was in usual health; second, that Jamie was very well, but i a few days in Orange, and that Bell had gone to pass the night with her particular friend, Mrs Meredith, the bluest, most bookish woman in New York

"Your father," the lady added, "has not yet returned, but as the dinner is ready I think ill not wait"

She touched a silver bell beside her, and ordering dinner to be sent up at once, went on to ask her son concerning his journey, and the people he hadto tell her all, for he kept nothing fro her his arm, he led her out to where the table was spread, widely different fro the Silverton hills, for where at the farmhouse there had been only the homely wares common to the country, with Aunt Betsy's onions served in a bowl, there was here the finest of dalass, and the heaviest of silver, with the well-trained waiter gliding in and out, himself the very personification of strict table etiquette, such as the Barlows had never dreamed about There was no fricasseed chicken here, or flaky crust, with pickled beans and apple sauce; no custard pie with strawberries and rich, sweet cream, poured from a blue earthen pitcher, but there were soups, and fish, and roasted meats, and dishes with French naotten up and served with the utmost precision, and wines, with fruit and colored cloth, and handso over all, with the ladylike decorulossy silk of broith her rich lace and dias And opposite to her Wilford sat, a tall, dark, handsome man of thirty or thereabouts--a man whose polished e of the world, and whose face to a close observer indicated how little satisfaction he had as yet found in that world He had tried its pleasures, drinking the cup of freedoht he liked it, he often found hi which shouldfor He had traveled all over Europe twice, had visited every spot worth visiting in his own country, had been a frequenter of every fashionable resort in New York, fro pond to the theatres, had been admitted as a lawyer, had opened an office on Broadway, acquiring some reputation in his profession, had looked atthem his wife, and found them as he believed, alike fickle, selfish, artificial and hollow-hearted In short, while thinking far ht, he was yet heartily tired of the butterflies who flitted so constantly around hiht if he would but stretch out his hand to catch theusted with the world as he saw it in New York, he had gone to the Far West, roa a while a therethe fulfill back to Canandaigua, he met with Katy Lennox He had so with her to the exa there to interest hiebra, French and rhetoric were bygone things, while young school ly insipid Still, to be polite to Mrs Woodhull, a childless, fashionable woenerally, and Katy Lennox in particular, he consented to go, and soon found himself in the crowded room, the cynosure ofman with Mrs Woodhull was the Wilford Ca Juno Cameron, who once spent a feeeks in town, Wilford knew they were talking about hi as easy an attitude as possible, he leaned hack in his chair, yawning indolently, and wishing the tiebra was called and Katy Lennox caolden hair and her simple dress of white relieved by no ornament except the cluster of wild flowers fastened in her belt and at her graceful throat But Katy needed no ornaments to make hercheeks and sparkling eyes, modestly cast down for a moment as she took her place, and then as modestly uplifted to her teacher's face, she first burst upon Wilford's vision, a creature of rare, bewitching beauty, such as he had never dreamed about