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The old lady colored up, with the quick, vivid rose-tint of sudden

and real pleasure that rarely outlives early girlhood, when the

first respondent to the breakfast-bell proved to be her Frederic's

god-son

"You are always punctual! I wish you would teach the good habit to

soood-"

"None of us deserve to be praised on that score, to-day," rejoined

he, looking at his watch "I did not awake until the dressing-bell

rang Our riding-party was out late last night The extre further than we intended, when

we set out"

"Yes! you young folks are falling into shockingly irregular

habits--take unprecedented liberties with

her head "If Winston do not return soon, you will set hed--but was serious the next instant

"I expected confidently to uard against being overheard "Should he

not return to-day, ought I not, before leaving this to-uardian? It is, you

and she tell me, a mere forer"

"Thatwhat is due to his