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of the salver on which her boas elevated; her head set slightly

on one side, her lips apart in a smile of enjoyment in her work and

in herself It was a picture the lover studied fondly--one that hung

forever thereafter in his gallery of ray eyes, the pliant grace of her figure and the buoyant

carriage of youth, health, and a glad heart, Mabel's pretensions to

beauty were comparatively few, said the world Frederic Chilton had,

nevertheless, fallen in love with her at sight, and considered her,

now, the handsomest woman of his acquaintance Her dress was a

sirass

bound up with yelloheat, scattered over it; her hair was lustrous

and abundant, and her face, besides being happy, was frank and

intelligent, onderful mobility of expression In temperament

and sentiment; in capacity for, and in demonstration of affection,

she suited Frederic to the finest fibre of his mind and heart He,

for one, did not carp at Aunt Rachel's declaration that they were

intended to spend tiether