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"Oh! there's lovely it will be, uncle, to have you to run to whenever

anything vexesever will vex me then"

"No, no; of course, ood-bay" And the train moved out of the station

Twoto her Uncle

Essec as usual She busied herself with the preparations for tea,

lighting the la the buttered toast in front of the fire

until he should awake from his dreams, and descend to real life While

the tea was "brewing," she sank back into her chair and fell into a

deep reverie She was as fair as ever, the golden hair drawn back from

the white, broad brows, but the eyes were full of anxious thought, and

there was a little wistful sadness about the lines of the mouth She

was paler, and did not race which belonged to her e last saw her She see dreams, until at last Gwen ca here? There's quiet you are!"

Val herself and her uncle

"Yes Co, thinking," said Gith an insolent sneer "You

now; and what about, I

should like to know?" and, with a shrewd shake of her head, she left