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"He was greatly delighted with thes, never were more happy in their lives He must have been very kind to them, yet he did not know that they were here"

"Histhe little mysteries"

"It was to see you, sir, that he caed to do so by his stepfather, but his mother has always put obstacles in the way, and assured hiain admission I have certainly refused to see her, but this is a very different odson, and lad he has coiven you pleasure"

"Pleasure in seeing that he is a lad of parts, and of an ingenuous, affectionate, honest nature, but regret in perceiving how I failed in the confidence that his father reposed in me"

"But, sir, you could not help it!"

"Once I could not It was, I know not how long, before I knew thatmyself dead to the world and the world to me, I took no heed to what, it now seeuardianship to the boy I was incapable of fulfilling any such charge, and I shunned the pain of hearing of it," he continued, rather as if talking to hiave them my name and they asked no more Yet what did they tell me of a sealed letter from my brother, addressed to me? True, I heard of it more than once, but I could ask no one to read it to me, and I closed my ears In Wayland's hands I knew the youth ell cared for, and only now do I feel that I have ill requited my brother's confidence"

"Indeed, sir, I cannot see how you could have done otherwise," said Aurelia, who could not bear to hear his tone of self-reproach

"My ah recalled to a sense of her presence "Excuse the absence of mind which has inflicted on you the selfish murmurs of the old recluse Tell htly maidens Phoebe had somewhat of the prude, Delia of the coquette"