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The dinner was a kind of festival Mac Roy made every one feel so, when he

served with careful and elaborate cerenificance given to his return It roused the first

feeling of opposition in him "I will not float with the current unless I

wish to do so," was his mental determination; "and I will not have it

supposed that my return home is a surrender of arded it as such; and his desire was to

adequately show his appreciation of the concession Before Allan had been

at home three days, he perceived that his father was restless and

i, he could not help feeling

that Allan was unkind to keep a question of such importance in abeyance

and uncertainty

But the week Allan had allowed himself nearly passed and he had not been

able to say a word to Mary on the subject pressing him so closely He felt

that he ow to see David He

found hilance

the easy attitude of the young s When the

servant said, "Here is a gentleman to call on you, Mr Prohtest eh