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Softly the night shadows fell around the farroup was assembled--all the _élite_ of the toith hbors, and the doctor's patients, who had co in his happiness, and glad that the irl who had grown up in theirand sorrow, had been molded into a noble woman, worthy of Dr Grant She was ready now for her second bridal, and she looked like soe of color in her face, and her great blue eyes shining with a brilliancy which hts leaped backward over a period of al eyelashes, but Morris, as often as he saw it, kissed it away, asking if she were sorry

"Oh, no, not sorry that I am to be your wife," she answered; "but it is not possible that I should forget entirely the roughness of the road which has ledfor you," was said several tio; but everything was done at last, and slowly down the stairs passed Mark Ray and Helen, Lieutenant Bob and Bell, with Dr Grant and Katy, whose face, as she stood again before the clergye, peaceful light, which azed upon her like the face of soht then of that deathbed in Georgetown--no thought of Greenwood, or the little grave in Silverton, where the crocuses and hyacinths were blosso save the man at her side, whose voice was so full and earnest, as it ently pressed the little hand as he fitted the wedding ring It was over at last, and Katy was Morris' wife, blushing now as they called her Mrs Grant, and putting up her rosebud lips to be kissed by all who claie Helen, too, cauests as to the beauty of the respective brides, as they were termed, was pretty equally divided; both were beautiful, and both bore traces of the suffering and suspense which had purified andsilk, which actually trailed an inch, and cap of real lace, Aunt Betsy hobbled aloith the satisfaction she felt at seeing her nieces so ood will and toleration that after the supper was over, and she fancied a few of the younger ones were beginning to feel tired, she suggested to Bell that she ht start a dance if she had a mind to, either in the kitchen or parlor, it did not matter where, and "Ephraiht fro look of reproach, and slightly endangered Aunt Betsy's standing in the church Perhaps Bell Ca a splendid tiht as well dispense with it altogether And so it happened that there was no dancing at Katy's wedding, and Uncle Ephraim escaped the reproof which his brother deacon would have felt called upon to give hirievous a sin, while Mrs Deacon Bannister, who, at the first trip of the toe, would have felt it her duty to depart, lest her eyes should look upon the evil thing, was thus peruests retired _en masse_ to their respective homes