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Little by little it had come to Katy that she was not quite as comfortable in her husband's family as she would be in a house of her own The constant watch kept over her by Mrs Ca her wonder as the matter, and why she should so often feel lonely and desolate when surrounded by every luxury which wealth could purchase "It is his folks," she always said to herself when cogitating upon the subject "Alone with Wilford I shall feel as light and happy as I used to do in Silverton"

And so Katy caught eagerly at the prospect of a release fro so anxious that Wilford, almost before he are of it himself, became the owner of one of the most desirable situations on Madison Square; and Katy was the envy of the belles, who had copied and i off their hair, which fashion inated from Katy herself, whose short curls had ceased to be obnoxious to the fastidious Mrs Ca, as Bell said, "like a fool," while Juno would have givenof which did not make her look like Katy Of all the household, after Katy, Juno was perhaps the only one glad of the new house It would be a change for herself, for she meant to spendwas to be on theof Juno's intentions and built many a castle of her new home, where mother could come with Helen and Dr Grant Somehow she never saw Uncle Ephraim, nor his wife, nor yet Aunt Betsy there She kne out of place they would appear, and how they would annoy Wilford: but surely to her mother and Helen there could be no objection, and when she first went over the house, she designated mentally this roo how each should be fitted up with direct reference to their tastes, Helen's containing a great many books, while her es, with a host of drawers for holding things And Wilford heard it all, e best so as to have no scene, for he had not the slightest intention of inviting either Mrs Lennox or Helen to visit him, much less to become a part of his household That he did not marry Katy's relatives was a fact as fixed as the laws of the Medes and Persians, and Katy's anticipations were answering no other purpose than to divert her ht and cheerful