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"Your acting is too like life," he said, not yet induced to laugh, and

she rattled on with her droll, sha

words, Alick, or is it 'the great eyes, reat attraction--that the Hole spot where one could play at croquet!"

"Quite irresistible!" replied Alick, and Bessie retreated fro at but with him; that is, if the odd,

quaint, inward thened his sleepy eyes,

could be called a laugh

Next ti party on the

road, Bessie upon Rachel's mare, and it appeared that Lady Te should not share her hospitality,

that it had been quite is must endure the dreadful spectacle"

Meanwhile Rachel was hard at ith the subscribers to the "Christian

Knowledge Society" Beginning with the A's, and working down a page a

day, she sent every s of the lacemakers,

and the plans of the industrial establishment, at a vast expense of

staained paid for two

hundred and forty fruitless letters

"And pray," said Alick, who had ridden on to call at the Homestead, "how

do you reconcile yourself to the temptation to the postmen?"

"They don't see what my letters are about?"