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To such thoughts she was raging, when Peter Van Ariens came home to dinner, and she could not restrain them He listened for a entle blow?

"In my house, Arenta," he said, "I will have no such words What you think, you think; but such thoughtsthat letter, I say Rem behaved like a scoundrel; he was cruel, and he was a coward Because he is my son I will not excuse hiry ae Hyde and Cornelia Moran the wrong he did thehts hi to be married?"

"That is what I hear"

"To Lord Hyde?"

"That also, is what I hear"

"Well, as I ahted to have told her a little of hter; a countess she will be"

"And a marquise I am And will you please say, if either countess or marquise is better than mistress or madame? Thank all the powers that be! I have learned the value of a title, and I shall change marquise for ht thus, a great deal of sorroe had both been spared"

"Well, then, a girl cannot get her share of wisdom, till she comes to it After all, I am now sorry I have quarrelled with Cornelia In New York and Philadelphia she will be a great woive offence is a great folly-- I know not which is the greater, Arenta"

"Oh, indeed, father," she answered, "if I aer that is hidden cannot be gratified; and if people use me badly, it is ed to eat brown bread, but I, for one, will say it is brown bread, and not white"

"Your oay you will take, until into soreat trouble you stumble"

"And then my oay I shall take, until out of it I stumble"

"I have told Re, and I aed, as to be sure they will answer, 'It is forgiven'"