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Nor had the Colonel any anxieties in leaving the representatives of the

three nations together while he went to attend his brother's wedding He

proposed that Tibbie should conduct Rose for the daily walk of which

he had et exercise

enough, since she was so averse to going alone upon the esplanade that

her aunt forbore to press it Sheout with Tibbie, and this the Colonel ascribed to her fancying

herself too old to be under the charge of a nurse It was trying to

laugh her out of her dignity, but without eliciting an anshen,

one afternoon just as they were entering together upon the esplanade, he

felt her hand tighten upon his oith a nervous frightened clutch, as

she pressed tre is not barking at you He only wants to

have a stick thrown into the sea for hiasped Rose

"Who?" inquired the Colonel, far from prepared for the reply, in a

terrified whisper,-"Mr Maddox"

"My dear child! Which, where?"

"He is gone! he is past Oh, don't turn back! Don't let ain"

"You don't suppose he could hurt you, my dear"

"No," hesitated Rose, "not with you"

"Nor with any one"