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"Thank you,else while I

can talk so," she answered, sarden when you come back;" and Rose replied with a nod of assent

that made the colonel smile and say, "Good-bye then, my sweet Lady

Discretion, some day ill be better acquainted"

"Dear child," said Er, and some day I

trust will be the same to her dear father Oh, Colin! it is too much to

hope that you have not believed what you must have heard! And yet you

wrote to hireat distrust of what I heard, since I

was also told that his sisters were unconvinced; and besides, I had

continually seen him at school the victim of other people's faults"

"This is best of all," exclai eyes, and hand

laid upon his; "it is the most comfortable word I have heard since it

happened Yes, indeed, many a time before I saw you, had I heard of

'Keith' as the friend who saw hi in hi," he answered--"knowing both you and Edward

Besides, is it not almost invariable that the inventor is ruined by his

invention--a Prospero by nature?"

"It was not the invention," she answered; "that throve as long as my

father lived"