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"And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living so to them "

"THERE THEY COME!" breathed the best roo of the door of the church owned in black in his inter a preli his forces The door was softly shut again; then after another interval it swung h the church: "The family!"

Mrs Welland cae pink face was appropriately solemn, and her plum-coloured satin with pale blue side-panels, and blue ostrich plueneral approval; but before she had settled herself with a stately rustle in the pew opposite Mrs Archer's the spectators were craning their necks to see as co after her Wild rumours had been abroad the day before to the effect that Mrs Manson Mingott, in spite of her physical disabilities, had resolved on being present at the cere character that bets ran high at the clubs as to her being able to walk up the nave and squeeze into a seat It was known that she had insisted on sending her own carpenter to look into the possibility of taking down the end panel of the front pew, and to measure the space between the seat and the front; but the result had been discouraging, and for one anxious day her fa wheeled up the nave in her enor enthroned in it at the foot of the chancel

The idea of this monstrous exposure of her person was so painful to her relations that they could have covered with gold the ingenious person who suddenly discovered that the chair was too wide to pass between the iron uprights of the awning which extended fro aith this awning, and revealing the bride to the mob of dresset near the joints of the canvas, exceeded even old Catherine's courage, though for a ht take a photograph of my child AND PUT IT IN THE PAPERS!" Mrs Welland exclaimed when her mother's last plan was hinted to her; and from this unthinkable indecency the clan recoiled with a collective shudder The ancestress had had to give in; but her concession was bought only by the pro-breakfast should take place under her roof, though (as the Washington Square connection said) with the Wellands' house in easy reach it was hard to have to make a special price with Brown to drive one to the other end of nowhere