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"Nothing at all," said Grace "What did you hear?"

"Only a little drowning, and a couid ease as he gave his bridle to a groom, and

walked with the!" exclaih, of course, the

smallest adventure does travel"

"I may venture to hope that neither are you drowned, norbroken, nor a celebrated professor and essayist 'in a high fever wi'

pulling any of you out of the sea'"

"There, Grace," exclaiuished"

"My dear Rachel, if his celebrity be in proportion to the rest of the

story"

"Then there really was a rescue!" exclaienuine anxiety; and Rachel recollecting her desire that the right

version should have the precedence, quickly answered, "There was no

danger, only Don slipped down into that curved cove where alked one

day with the boys I went down after hiet up with him in my arms, and Bessie called some one to help

me"

"And why could not Bessie help you herself?"

"Oh! strangers can never climb on our slippery rocks as we can"

"Moreover, it would have spoilt the predica round with a s