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good deal of her nervous headache this summer, and Lady Temple wanted

her to see Mr Frampton, but Aunt Ailie said it was only excitelad you have come back! We have so wearied

after you"

Nevertheless Rose duteously loosed the hand to which she had been

clinging till they caain

he was ht eyes This ti on one knee beside her,

he put his arm round her, and held her hands in his

The first words that passed were, "You had the letters?"

"Colin, Colin, my one prayer has been, 'Make Thy way plain before one; the displeasure is gone; the doubts are gone;

and now there is nothing--nothing but the lameness and the poverty; and

if you like the old cinder, Colin, that is your concern;" and she hid

her face, with a sort of sobbing laugh

"And even the haste; you consent to that?"

"I don't feel it like haste," she said, looking up with a sives leave, and thinks the hurry will not harm you?"

"Ailie! O Colin, did you think I could tell any one of your letter,

before you had had your answer?"