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"What could presumptuous hope inspire"--Rokeby

There had been the usual foretaste of winter, rather sharp for

Avonh a trifle to what it was in less sheltered places,

quite enough to -trees, and

shut Colonel Keith up in the library Then came the rain, and the result

was that the lawn of Myrtlewood became too sloppy for the most ardent

devotees of croquet; indeed, as Bessie said, the great charht ain, and re-asserted the clai the laas past its power, and

Conrade and Francis were obliged to console the ride They could not persuade their

o with them, perhaps because she had from her nursery-

syreat white horse that was

being led round to the door of Gowanbrae

She said shecalls that the

charlect, and in about half an hour

from that time she was announced in Miss Willia, allance in her eyes, and a flush on her cheek, such as to startle both

Ermine and the Colonel