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Here it was getting dark again, and Madge would hunt her in presently and shut the shutters Hark! as that? A bell echoing over the house! Madge came after her "Where are you, my fine mistress! Go you into the parlour, I say," and she turned the key upon the prisoner, whose heart beat like a bird fluttering in a cage Suddenly her door was opened, and in darted Fidelia and Lettice, who flung themselves upon her with ecstatic shrieks of "Cousin Aura, dear cousin Aura!" Loveday was behind, directing the bringing in of trunks frohters are to be with you for the night,for lad tangle of an eain, with all sorts of little exclamations from the children, into which Aurelia broke with the inquiry for their brother "He is et up to-morrow, and then he will come and find you"

"Have you seen him?"

"Oh, yes, and he says it is Sister Aura, and not Cousin Aura--"

"My dear, dear little sisters--" and she hugged the upon his bed," said Letty, "and ere all talking about you when my Lady mary?" asked Aurelia

"Oh! she frightened me," said Fay "She said ere pert, forward ues, for we should be whipped if we ever said you nao to wish Brother A"

Aurelia's heart could not but leap with joy that her tyrant should have failed in carrying to Bowstead the renunciation of the e Whether Lady Belamour meant it or not, she had made resistance much easier by the coathered fro found that their talk with their brother was all of the one object of his thoughts, had carried the about London in search of a school at which to leave the for Queen's Square, and there was no room at another house at which Lady Bela, of course, afraid of their tongues, and in her perplexity had been reduced to letting theht