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Twilight was setting in when the Major began to catch glies, a lu ate Such a coach! It was only the second best, and the glories of its landscape--painted sides were sos a little tarnished to a critical eye; yet it was a splendid article, coht However, nobody cared for stuffiness, certainly not the three young ladies, who, fan in hand, ca down the steps that were unrolled for them The eldest paused to adht them home, and the coach rolled on to dispose of the res froht-dress peeped out furtively from another, and the house-door was opened by a tall old soldier-servant, stiff as a rahtly tied and plastered up into a queue, and a blue and brown livery which sat like a unifor ladies," he said, "I hope you enjoyed yourselves"

"Vastly, thank you, Corporal Palmer And how has it been with my father in our absence?"

"Purely, Miss Harriet He relished the Friar's chicken that Miss Delavie left for hiene, after which he did a up, "that the little rogue who froood as gold, madam He played in master's room till Nannerl called him to his bed, when he went at once, 'true to his orders,' says the master 'A fine soldier he will make,' says I to my master"

Therewith the sisters mounted the uncarpeted but well-polished oak stair, knocked at the father's door, and entered one by one, each dropping her curtsey, and, though the eldest was five-and-twenty, neither speaking nor sitting till they were greeted with a hearty, "Co s"

The eldest took the only unoccupied chair, while the other two placed theht, with both little high heels on the floor, in none of the easy attitudes of da over a party All three were coh cheek-bones, a large nose, rough complexion, and red hair, and her countenance was more loveable and trustworthy than syrotesque upon her, and she was so well aware of the fact as to put on no more than was absolutely essential to a lady of birth and breeding Harriet (pronounced Hawyot), the next in age, had a small well-set head, a pretty neck, and fine dark eyes, but the small-pox had made havoc of her bloom, and left its traces on cheek and brow The wreck of her beauty had given her a discontented, fretful expression, which rendered her far less pleasing than honest, hoh she ees of the es of shape and carriage