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"I have known froree with irl, and there was a great secret about her, too--Genevra, baby will be called," and Katy looked straight into the fire, wholly unconscious of the effect that name had produced upon two of her auditors, Wilford and his mother

They did not faint, like Marian, but Wilford's face hite as marble, and his eyes turned quickly to his mother, who, in her first shock, started so violently as to thron from the stand a costly vase, which was broken in many pieces This occasioned a little diversion, and by the tiathered up, Wilford's lips were not quite as livid, but he dared not trust his voice yet, and listened while his sisters gave their opinion of the na until she had heard froher power than Katy One there was in that faht into the parlor in his wheel-chair, and sat leaning his cheek upon his hand when the na up of his face, he exclairandma? Didn't you talk of it once with--"

"Hush-h, Jamie Don't interrupt us now," Wilford said, in a voice sothe little boy, that Jahtened; while Mrs Cameron, still with her back to Katy, asked, what had put that fanciful name into her mind? Where had she heard it?

Katy explained, and, with the removal of the fear which for a few ain; while into his heart there crept the thought that by giving that naht be rave in St Mary's churchyard--to her above whose head the English daisies had blossomed and faded many a year But not so with his mother--the child should not be called Genevra if she could prevent it; and she opposed it with all her powers, offering at last, as a great concession on her part, to let it bear the name of any of Katy's family--Hannah and Betsy mentally excepted, of course--Lucy Lennox, Helen Lennox, Katy Lennox, anything but Genevra As usual, Wilford when he had learned herthe secret preference, and the discussion became quite warm, especially as Katy evinced a willfulness for which Helen had never given her credit Hitherto she had been as yielding as wax, but on this point she was firth from the fact that Wilford did not oppose her as he usually did She could not, perhaps, have resisted him, but his manner was not very decided, and so she quietly persisted "Genevra, or nothing," until the others gave up the contest, hoping she would feel differently after a few days' reflection But Katy knew she shouldn't; and Helen could not overcome the exultation hich she saw her little sister put the Camerons to rout and remain master of the field