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She had co behind him, with her hands upon his shoulder; so she did not see the expression of his face as he answered quickly; "Yes, yes"

A moment after he quitted the roo before the , charged the day as strictly Wilford's fault Returning at last to her chair she went off into a reverie as to the new ho and the new friends she was tomost if they would like her Once she had said to Wilford: "Which of your sisters shall I like best?"

And Wilford had answered her by asking: "Which do you like best, books or going to parties in full dress?"

"Oh, parties and dress," Katy had said, and Wilford had then rejoined: "You will like Juno best, for she is all fashion and gayety, while Bluebell prefers her books and the quiet of her own room"

Katy felt afraid of Bell, and in fact, now that they were so near, she felt afraid of the Esther's assurances that they could not help loving her During the six ether Esther had learned to feel for her young lady that strong affection which so which she could do for her she did, s which she also dreaded, for though the Camerons were too proud to express before her their opinion of Wilford's choice, she had guessed it readily, and pitied the young wife brought up with ideas so different from those of her husband's family More accusto was thethe fire into a stilla stool for Katy, who in blissful ignorance of her husband's real feelings, sat waiting his return froone, and building pleasant pictures of to- with her mother and Helen, and possibly Dr Morris, if not Uncle Ephrai and weariso jaded and tired, wishing, as she told Esther, that instead of going to New York direct she could go straight to the farmhouse and "rest on mother's bed," that receptacle for all her childish ills

"I mean to ask Wilford if I hter as she thought of really going home to mother and Helen and the kind old people ould pet and love her so much