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"Who--Edgar?" said Melbury, abruptly "Matter? Nothing What, ot hoht not to be out in the air like this"

"But he has been thrown off his horse!"

"I know; I know I saw it He got up again, and walked off as well as

ever A fall on the leaves didn't hurt a spry fellow like hinificantly "I suppose he went to

look for his horse I tried to find hio away under the trees I found the horse, and have led it

home for safety So he ht air"

She returned to the house with her father When she had again ascended

to the landing and to her own rooreat relief to her

to find that both Petticoat the First and Petticoat the Second of her

Bien-aime had silently disappeared They had, in all probability,

heard the words of her father, and departed with their anxieties

relieved

Presently her parents came up to Grace, and busied the soon that she would prefer to be

left alone they went away