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And yet there were ti but Squire Percival's organ or Ethel's piano seemed to exorcise the unrest and ennui that could not be hid Ethel watched theseof September, when they perceptibly increased, she asked one day, "Are you happy, Tyrrel? Quite happy?"

"I a a splendid holiday," he answered, "but----"

"But what, dear?"

"One could not turn life into a long holiday--that would be harder than the hardest work"

She answered "Yes," and as soon as she was alone fell to thinking, and in the midst of her meditation Mrs Nicholas Rawdon entered in a whirl of teht

"What do you think?" she asked between laughing and crying "Whatever do you think? Our Lucy had twins yesterday, two fine boys as ever was And I wish you could see their grandfather and their father They are out of themselves with joy They stand hour after hour beside the two cradles, looking at the little fellows, and they nearly cahted!" cried Ethel "And what are you going to call them?"

"One is an hour older than the other, and John Thomas wanted them called Percival and Nicholas But my Nicholas wanted the eldest called after hih And John Thomas said 'he could surely name his own sons; and then Nicholas told him to remember he wouldn't have been here to have any sons at all but for his father' And just then I came into the room to have a look at the little lads, and when I heard what they were fratching about, I told theht to name the children, and they would just have to put up with the naave them"

"And has Lucy naht away to her and explained the dilemma, and I said, 'Now, Lucy, it is your place to settle this question' And she answered in her positive little way, 'You tell father the eldest is to be called Nicholas, and tell John Thoe two of that na about naood as christened already' And of course when Lucy said that we all kneas settled And I'lad the eldest is Nicholas He is a fine, sturdy little Yorkshire into a teet it as soon as he wants it Dearie oing to give all the hands a holiday, and a trip up to Aainst it"