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"You did not wish rave

countenance, when she found hi on the slope of the lawn shortly

after, in deep thought

"No, not at all," he replied; "it is likely to be a pleasant affair, and

hted to have us with hi

that she still looked at him inquisitively, "it is the old story My

sister! Poor little thing! I always feel as though I wore more unkind

and unjust to her than any one else, and yet we are never together

withoutherself and me; and yet it

is all so fair and well reasoned that one is always left in the wrong

I regretted this e extreret it now"

"Indeed! Every one says how attentive she is to hiether"

"Pshaw, Rachel! that is just the way A feords and pretty ways pass

with her and all the world for attention, when she is wherever her fancy

calls her, all for his good It is just the attention she showed my

uncle And now it is her will and pleasure to queen it here a her

old friends, and she will not open her eyes to see the poor old man's

precarious state"

"Do you think him so very ill, Alick?"

"I was shocked when I saw him yesterday As to sciatica, that is all

nonsense; the blow in his side has done soe, and if it