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"If I ao, just that I ht always fills reat flatterer are you, Joris!" but she lifted her face again, and George kissed it, and then rode rapidly away

He hardly drew rein until he reached his grandfather's house, a handsoarden that was, at this season, a glory of tulips and daffodils, hyacinths and narcissus--the splendid colouring of the beds being wonderfully increased by their borderings of clipped box An air of sunshiny peace was over the place, and as the upper-half of the side-door stood open he tied his horse and went in The ticking of the tall house-clock was the only sound he heard at first, but as he stood irresolute, a sweet, thin voice in an adjoining roo a hymn

"Grandmother! Grandmother!! Grandmother!!!" he called, and before the last appeal was echoed the old lady appeared She caularly bright and alert, with rosy cheeks, and snohite hair under a snohite cap of clear-starched lace A snohite kerchief of laas crossed over her breast, and the rest of her dress was so perfectly Dutch that she ht have stepped out of one of Tenier's pictures

"Oh, my Joris!" she cried, "Joris! Joris! I am so happy to see thee But what, then, is the randmother" And he sat down by her side and went over the conversation he had had with his father She never interrupted hi needles that she was , she answered-"To sell thee, Joris, is a great sha to sell thee is still worse This is what I think: Let half of the inco lady, but THYSELF into the bargain, is beyond all reason And if with Cornelia Moran thou art in love, a good thing it is;--so I say"

"Do you know Cornelia, grandreat beauty I think her; and Doctor John has Money--plenty of ood faentleman"

"But my father hates Doctor Moran"

"Very wicked is he to hate any one Why, then?"

"He gave me only one reason--that his family is French"