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Herbert no more than half opened his front door before he perceived that his friend's advice had been excellent So clearly Herbert perceived this, that he impulsively decided not to open the door any farther, but on the contrary to close it and retire; and he would have done so, had his mother not reached forth and detained hi in the hall with one of his great-aunts, one of his aunts, two aunts-by-e, and an elderly un However, they changed theirthem

The captive's father joined them, a few minutes later, but it had already become clear to Herbert that The North End Daily Oriole was in one sense a thing of the past, though in another sense this former owner and proprietor was certain that he would never hear the last of it However, on account of the life of blackime, the Oriole's extinction was far less painful to Herbert than his father supposed; and the latter wasted a great deal of severity, insisting that the printing-press should be returned that very night to Uncle Joseph Herbert's heartiest retrospective as that the ole printing-press had been returned to Uncle Joseph long ago

"If you can find hiested "Nobody knohere he goes when he gets the way he did this afternoon ere discussing it with hiht!"

"He can't stay away forever," Aunt Fanny re him five dollars an hour for the automobile he's in, and surely even Joseph will decide there's a limit to wildness some time!"

"I don't care when he cori-press back--and Herbert will be let out of the house long enough to carry it over His o with him"

Herbert bore much more than this He had seated himself on the third step of the stairway, and ed silence as he could Once, however, they got a yelp of anguish out of hiinia said: "Oh, Herbert, Herbert! How could you make up that terrible falsehood about Mr Crue with your cousin Florence's pure little poem!"