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"I knohat they will be e have ht be serious, being so, I have no fears"

Then came a silence, till a halt at the last station before Bath roused

Alick again

"Bessie," he said, in the low voice the stoppage permitted, "don't think

me unkind I believe you have waited on purpose to leave me no time

for expostulation, and what I have said has sounded the more harsh in

consequence"

"No, Alick," she said, "you are a kind brother in all but the

constructions you put upon s I think it would be better if

there were uardian,

over anxious, and oftenyour illness

I think we shall be happier together when you no longer feel yourself

responsible"

"The tables turned," muttered Alick

"I am prepared for misconstruction," added Bessie "I knoill be

supposed to be the title; the estate it cannot be, for you kno poor

a property it is; but I do not mean to care for the world Your opinion

is a different thing, and I thought you would have seen that I could