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she went off on her progress to all the seven cribs, and was only just

returning froentleer beside her on the sofa, saying, "Now, Alick, I do so

want to hear about poor, dear little Bessie;" and they began so low and

confidentially, that Rachel wondered if her alarms wore to be transfered

from the bearded colonel to the dapper boy, or if, in very truth,

she eneral coquette Besides, a loves at so s away the ti over

the books on the table, and she did not regard the present company

sufficiently to desist on their account Colonel Keith began to turn

over some numbers of the "Traveller" that lay near him, and presently

looked up, and said, "Do you knoho is the writer of this?"

"What is it? Ah! one of the Invalid's essays They strike every one; but

I fancy the authorship is a great secret"

"You do not know it?"

"No, I wish I did Which of the? 'Country Walks' That

is not one that I care about, it is a mere hash of old recollections;

but there are some very sensible and superior ones, so that I have heard

it so For my

part, I think them too earnest to be a man's; men always play with their

subject"