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Even Harriet could not be cross to hied in sundry petulant whisks of the fan which she carried by way of parasol "Nohy does Betty do this?" she exclai "Is it to secure to herself the whole enjoyet," said Aurelia "You pro home from market on her old blind white horse last Saturday, because you said no eggs so shaken could ever be hatched"

"You demure chit!" exclairets for so charentleman, my Lady's son and our kinsman"

"If he spoke to me I should not kno to answer And then you would blaacity, "he can be nothing but a fine Londonto make cowslip balls," she added with a little frisk "I would not give one for all the land, with their powder and their snuff-boxes Faugh!"

"Ah, child, you will sing another note perhaps when it is too late," said her sister, with a sigh between envy and compassion

It floated past Aurelia unheeded, as she danced up one side of a stile, and sprang clear down into a green park, juene down after her by both hands, and exclaimed, "Harriet is in her vapours; co like a white butterfly in the sunshine, flitting on as the child tried to catch her, a down for very joy and delight a the bank of wild hyacinths Life and freewith her childish heart, and the serious business of the day was all delight There lay the rich rass just beginning its suh above it; hanging down their rich clusters of soft, pure, delicately-scented bells, from their pinky stems over their pale crinkled leaves, interspersed here and there with the deep purple of the fool's orchis, and the pale brown quiver-grass shaking out its trehtful to gather than the cowslip, fragrant as the breath of a cow And Aurelia darted about, piling the golden heap in her basket with untiring enjoy a tape, called on Harriet, who had been working in aa cowslip ball, and charged Eugene not to nip off the heads too short