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This was a possibility that had forhts, or Juno's Of course Katy would acquiesce in whatever Wilford said was best, and he always thought as they did Consequently there would be no trouble whatever It was ti robe, Mrs Cary family for weeks Theit a family dinner party was held at No ---- Fifth Avenue, the day succeeding the call on Marian Hazleton
Very pure and beautiful Katy looked as she once more took her old place in the chair they called hers at Father Cameron's, because it was the one she had always preferred to any other--a large, motherly easy-chair, which took in nearly the whole of her petite figure, and against whose soft cushioned back she leaned her curly head with a pretty air of importance, as after dinner was over, she caentlemen to join them, when they were to talk up baby's name
Katy knew exactly what it would be called, but as Wilford had never asked her, she was keeping it a secret, not doubting that the others would be quite as hted as herself with the novel nalish story, which had in it a Genevra, and she had at once seized upon it as the nomen a person could well possess "Genevra Cameron!" She had repeated it to herself many a time as she sat with her baby on her lap She had written it on sundry slips of paper, which had afterward found their way into the grate; and once she had scratched with her dia-rooible characters, "Genevra Cameron!" There should be no middle name to take from the sweetness of the first--only Genevra--that was sufficient; and the little lady tapped her foot i Wilford and father would hurry and come in
Never for an instant had it entered her mind that she, as the mother, would not be permitted to call her baby what she chose; so when she heard Mrs Causta, she solden brown, and thinking to herself, "Maggie Cah, but not like Genevra Indeed I shall not have any Margarets now; next time perhaps I may"