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So she kept her own counsel, and doubted and debated the reat clock were rising quickly to the hour

of fate Then she laid down her fine sewing, and said, "Mother, I want

to walk in the garden When I come back my task I will finish"

"That is well Joanna, too, has let her work fall down to her lap Go,

both of you, and get the fine air from the river"

This was not what Katherine wished; but nothing but assent was possible,

and the girls strolled slowly down the box-bordered walks together

Madam Van Heemskirk watched them from thefor a few minutes A

smile of love and pleasure was on her fine, placid face; but she said

with a sigh, as she turned away,-"Well, well, if it is the will of God they should not rise in the world,

one e as to the whale

the whole wide sea; that is the truth"

Joanna was silent; she was thinking of her own love-affairs; but

Katherine, doubtful of herself, thought also that her sister suspected

her When they reached the river-bank, Joanna perceived that the lilacs

were in bloom, and at their root the beautiful auriculas; and she

stooped low to inhale their strange, nameless, earthy perfulish soldiers, stopped just below

the on her oars Then an officer in the stern rose and

looked towards Katherine, who stood in the full sunlight with her large

hat in her hand Before she could nition, Joanna