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"It fell on the ce into the"It'll go out pretty soon"

"Then I suppose weJulia first and Mr Dill second "Miss Atwater and I are just starting for a walk"

Mr Ridgely also addressed the new arrival "Miss Atwater and I are just starting for a walk"

"You see, Noble," said the kind-hearted Julia, "I did tell you I had another engageling timidity, love, and a fatal stubbornness; "I caht if it was a walking-party, well, why not go along? That's the way it struckto look easily genial, but not succeeding; then he added, "Well, as I say, that's the way it struck "

"Yes, we ht," Newland Sanders said quickly; and he placed hi it with deterely had kept hiht "You were mistaken, h there's Miss Florence, Noble Nobody's asked her to go walking to-day!"

Now, Florence took this satire literally She juhtly: "I just as soon! Let's do have a walking-party I just as soon ith Mr Dill as anybody, and we can all keep together, kind of" With that, she stepped confidently to the side of her selected escort, who appeared to be at a loss how to avert her kindness

There was a htly disfigured the countenances of the two gentlemen with Julia; but when Florence pointed to a house across the street and remarked, "There's Great-Uncle Milford and Aunt C'nelia; they been lookin' out of their second guestroomabout half an hour," Julia uttered an exclamation

"Murder!" she said, and o!"

Thus the little procession started, Mr Sanders and the sprightly er at Beauty's side, with Florence and Mr Dill so close behind that, before they had gone a block, Newland found it necessary to warn this rear rank that the heels of his new shoes were not part of the pavement After that the rear rank, a little abashed, consented to fall back sohtened colour,the progress of the walking-party Her Aunt Fanny Patterson, rocking upon a veranda, rose and evidently called to someone within the house, whereupon she was joined by her invalid sister, Aunt Harriet, with a trained nurse and two elderly do audience And in the front yard of "the Henry Atwater house," at the next corner, Herbert underwent a genuine bedazzleaze dwelt upon Florence, and he pers slowly to crumple under him, until, just as the party came nearest him, he lay prostrate upon his back in a swoon Afterward he rose and for a time followed in a burlesque manner; then decided to return home