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If Mrs Sutton had raised horrified eyes and despairing hands upon

learning the date of her nephew's proposed e, it was because

she y she had

never until now seen fairly put forth Within three days after his

return, the homestead was alive with ed by the proh Richmond; and so explicit were his orders as to the minutest

detail of the work appointed to each, that he could safely leave the

scene of action at the ti trip northward,

to which he had referred in his dialogue with Mabel on the afternoon

of his arrival

The party of visitors had eions, a couple of

days after Frederic Chilton's departure, with the exception of Rosa

Tazewell, who accepted Mabel's invitation to prolong her sojourn,

the ly since she "flattered herself she could be of use

in the general upheaving of the ancient foundations, and

establish she enjoyed above

another, it was a tremendous bustle--a lively revolution"

Sheherself

forthwith as Mrs Sutton's aid-de-ca herself so far