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Florence, sitting quietly in a chair near by, with a copy of "Sesame and Lilies" in her lap, listened to her mother's side of this conversation with an expression of impersonal interest; and if she could have realized how coh) the details of their first raht really have felt as little alarlad our branch of the family isn't responsible That's a co copies of Herbert's dreadful paper all up and down the town, my clerk says He tellsMurdock Hawes is cashier, they only got hold of one copy, but typewrote it and raphed it, and some of 'e Hawes He's the one who sent Julia the three fivepound boxes of chocolates from New York all at the sahed "Poor thing!"

"Florence is out aht here She's just started to read Ruskin this afternoon She says she's going to begin and read all of hih That's very nice, don't you think?"

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"I think that's very nice, at her age especially," Mrs Atwater urged "Don't you?"

"Ye-es! Oh, yes! At least I suppose so Ah--you don't think--of course she hasn't had anything at all to do with this?"

"Well, I don't see how she could You know Aunt Fanny told us how Herbert declared before theht, that Florence should never have one thing to do with his printing-press, and said they wouldn't even let her colad Herbert made it so clear that she can't be implicated I suppose the family are all pretty well down on Uncle Joseph?"

"Uncle Joseph is being greatly blaht to have known better than to put such an instru-press into the hands of an irresponsible boy of that age Of course it sis We none of us think Uncle Joseph ever drea exactly like this, and of course Uncle Joseph says hi; he's said so tiain, all afternoon But of course he's greatly blamed"