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"O Rosa, she is your own flesh and blood! and, as her father said, a

n any cause

to hiht better have made open outcry than have left upon his mind

the impression that I had banished her cruelly and unnecessarily

But I despair of giving you an idea of how provoking she can be She

is a Chilton, through and through, in feature, oody' children, you know! a class of

animals that are simply intolerable to me She is too precocious and

unbaby-like to be in the least interesting You should have seen my

little Violet to understand what a constant disappointment Florence

is She was ,

prankish, peppery elf that was ever made The best trait in

Florence's character was her love for her baby-sister She gave up

everything to her while she was alive, and they told me that she

would not eat, and scarcely slept, for days after her death Her

father will have it that she is singularly sensitive, and has

; but if this be so, it is queer I never

found it out Nobody could help adoring Violet--el!"

The hysterical sobs were pu up the tears now in hot torrents,

and these Mrs Sutton was fain to assuage by loving arts she would

not--but for the danger of allowing them to flow--have been in the

te pity for the

hardly-used babe, and displeasure at the et Rosa's sins; to lessen, in the

retrospect, her worst faults into foibles, than it would have been

to overlook the s of one less mercurial, and whose