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"I suppose you had better stay here, Alexander," said his wife

"That's as you like"

"Mamma, why shouldn't father come with us?" said Kitty "It

would be nicer for hiot up and stroked Kitty's hair She lifted her

head and looked at him with a forced smile It always seemed to

her that he understood her better than anyone in the faest, she

was her father's favorite, and she fancied that his love gave hilance

intently at her, it seeh her,

and understood all that was not good that was passing within her

Reddening, she stretched out towards hi a kiss, but he

only patted her hair and said: "These stupid chignons! There's no getting at the real daughter

One simply strokes the bristles of dead wohter, "what's your young buck about,

hey?"

"Nothing, father," answered Dolly, understanding that her husband

was meant "He's always out; I scarcely ever see hi with a sarcastic sone into the country yet--to see about selling

that forest?"

"No, he's still getting ready for the journey"

"Oh, that's it!" said the prince "And so a

ready for a journey too? At your service," he said to his wife,