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"My dear one she intended that I should make miserable with reproaches,

and from his own home drive him to her home for some consolations;" and

Katherine smiled as she reflected how hopeless such a plan of separation

would be

Never, perhaps, are we so happy as e have just escaped some feared

calamity That letter lifted the last fear froave her also the expectation of an early visit "I am very impatient

to see you, my Kate," he wrote; "and as early as possible after the

funeral, youlike music in her heart She

read them aloud to little Joris, and then the whole household warence For there was always much pleasant preparation for

Hyde's visits,--clean rooms to make still cleaner, silver to polish,

dainties to cook; every weed to take froarden, every unnecessary

straw fro must be

beautiful To the hted to

minister

So these last days of May onderfully happy ones to Katherine The

house was in its suarden,

which had now not only the freshness of spring, but the richer promise

of summer Katherine was always dressed with extraordinary care and

taste Little Joris was always lingering about the gates which coest stretch of observation A joyful "looking forward" was upon