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Servants had been engaged conditionally, and the house was fully ready,

but the young mother could hardly listen to her aunt's explanations

in her anxiety that the little ones should be rested and fed, and she

responded with seest in her aret hold

of it Her thanks grew

order, and all things ready for a meal

"I don't drink tea with nurse," was Conrade's cry, the signal for

another general outcry, untranquillized by soothings and persuasions,

till the door was shut on the younger half of the family, and those who

could not open it remained to be comforted by nurse, a soldier's ho had been with them from the birth of Conrade

The Teers,

but being neither abashed nor silenced, only resenting or avoiding all

attempts at intercourse, and as the boys rushed in and out of the rooon, only checked for a few entle hush, Grace saw her mother so stunned and bewildered that she

rejoiced in the fear of cold that had decided that Rachel alone should