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In a few hours things had fallen naturally and easily into place Joris

and Brairandfather's shoulder listening Lysbet and

Katherine were busy unpacking trunks full of fineries and pretty things;

occasionally stopping to give instructions to Dinorah, as preparing

an extra tea, as Batavius and Joanna were co

"And to the elder and Janet See, also," said

Lysbet; "for I see not why anger should be nursed, or old friendships

broken, for politics"

Katherine had asked at once, with eager love, for Joanna; she had

expected that she would be waiting to welcome her Lysbet se family, then, and Batavius, and her

house Seldom comes she here now"

But about four o'clock, as Katherine and Hyde were dressing, Joanna and

Batavius and all their family arrived In a h the house There was a sense of

confusion and unrest, and the loud crying of a hungry baby deter this duty, when Katherine

hastened to reatly altered the

slirown stout, and was untidy

in her dress, and a worried, anxious expression was continually on her