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"And how sorry I aet up in tiay voice frolass door behind hi that her lover refrained with

difficulty fro the saucy mouth then and there

He did take both her hands, under pretext of relieving her of the

flowers, and Aunt Rachel judiciously turned her back upon theent search in the beaufet for a vase

"Do you expect us to believe that you have been more industrious

than we? As if we did not know that you bribed the gardener to have

a bouquet cut and laid ready for you at the back-door," Frederic

charged upon the matutinal Flora "Else, where are other evidences

of your stroll, in dew-sprinkled draperies and wet feet? Confess

that you ran down stairs just two o! Now that I come to

think of it, I a your drowsy proclivities after sunrise"

"I have been sitting in the su!"

protested Mabel, wondrously resigned to the detention, after a

single, and not violent attempt at release "If you had opened your

shutters you must have seen me But I kneas secure froht o'clock,

about which tihtly-closed lids As to dew--there isn't a drop upon grass or

blossom And, by the same token, we shall have a storm within