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Very differently fro passed, and on her face there was a look such as Katy's had never worn, as on her knees she asked for guidance to choose the right, to lay all self aside, and if it were her duty and care for the child which had stirred the pulsations of her heart and uish as she remembered what she once hoped would be, and what but for a cruel wrong ht still have been And as she prayed there crept into her face another look which told that self was sacrificed at last, and Katy Ca--aye, enerous remuneration offered would e, she wrote to Marian, who hastened to confer by note with Katy, adding in a postscript, "Is it still your wish that I should go? if so, I am at your disposal"

It was Katy's wish, and she hastened to reply, going next to the nursery to confer with Mrs Kirby Dark were the frowns and dire the displeasure of that lady when told that her services would soon be no longer needed on Madison Square--that instead of going up the river as she had hoped, she was free to return to the "genteel and highly respectable home on Bond Street," where Mrs Cameron had found her

"Wait till theto Mrs Cahted when that very day she heard that lady's voice in the parlor

But Mrs Caard to both Mrs Hubbell's and Marian's antecedents, and a little doubtful as to the effect a coht have upon the child, saw at once that Wilford was in favor of New London and so voted accordingly, only asking that she ht see and talk with Marian Hazelton herself

"One can judge soone converse If her rammar execrable, I should consider it my duty to withdraw my consent," she said, with as much deliberation as if the matter holly at her disposal "Would Katy drive around with her to Marian Hazelton's to-hted; and so next day Mrs Cah her aristocratic skirts and glancing ruefully around as she followed Mrs Cahts of stairs to Marian's door, which did not open to the assured knock, nor yet yield to the gentle pressure Marian was out, and there was no alternative but for Katy to scribble a few lines upon the card she left upon the knob, telling Marian who had been there, and requesting her to call that evening at No ---- Fifth Avenue, as the elder Mrs Ca her grandchild to her care "Please go, Marian, forto Wilford's mother what she had written, she omitted that, and so escaped a lecture from that lady upon undue familiarity with inferiors