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in a minute Tell Theophilus Bell not to play Indian under the table

Now, Mrs Richie, what shall we do? Do you

them say their Collect? Or would you rather wait in the study? We

shall be through in three-quarters of an hour David shall bring you

so to carry him off?"

Dr Lavendar said, ruefully

"Oh," she faltered in a sudden panic, "I will come some other time,"

but so-room;

very likely it was because she would not loosen the clasp of David's

little warm careless hand, and so her reluctant feet followed him in

his hurry to admonish Theophilus When she entered, instant silence

fell upon the children Lydia Wright, stuh the catechism

to Ellen Dale [Illustration: "Dr Lavendar," said Helena, "in regard

to David"] who held the prayer-book and prompted, let her voice trail

off and her ht of a visitor; Theophilus

Bell rubbed his sleeve over so a woly;

"I saw her co down by

Dr Lavendar, Theophilus skulked to his seat, and read his Collect

ever with unheeding attention