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"It was a rusty ie Now it

is infinitely brighter"

"But, Alick," she said, leaving the thought of herself for that of her

child, "I believe you ht about Una, for," she added in low

voice, "she is like the most practically clever person I ever saw"

"True," he answered gravely, "I see it every day, in every saucy gesture

and coaxing shty fits I hardly kne to look on at her airs with Keith,

it was so exactly like the little sister I first knew Rachel, such

cleverness as that is a farintellectuality could ever be God grant," he added, with

one of the effusions which somatic

temperament, "that this little fellow may be a kinder, wiser brother

than ever I was, and that weher up to your own truth and