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"It would be one way"

"So he is co to look me over I am a matrimonial possibility How do you like that idea, Aunt Ruth?"

"I do not entertain it for a e When e their estates they do not make confidences about the matter, or talk it over with their friends They always conceal and hide the transaction If your father holds the e, I feel sure that no one but hi about it Don't look at the wrong side of events, Ethel; be content with the right side of life's tapestry Why are you not asleep? What are you worrying about?"

"Nothing, only I have not heard all I wanted to hear"

"And perhaps that is good for you"

"I shall go and see grand"

"I would not if I were you You cannot h Your father will call on Mr Mostyn to-et unprejudiced information"

"Oh, I don't know that, Ruth Father is intensely American three hundred and sixty-four days and twenty-three hours in a year, and then in the odd hour he will flare up Yorkshire like a conflagration"

"English, you rand much of the other counties, and people froners You randmother says of Mr Fred Mostyn, father will believe it, too"

"Your father always believes whatever your grandht I think I shall go to grande her I shall e that I a with curiosity about Mr Mostyn"

"And she will tease and lecture you, say you are 'not sweetheart high yet, only a little o and talk with Dora To-morrow she will need you, I aain, dear"

"Good night!" Then with a sudden anirandh now Good night, Ruth" And this good night, though dropping sweetly into theof the pleasant hopefulness of its major key--it expressed anticipation and satisfaction