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It was June From the patent inner coluleaned the information (enlivened by cuts of duchesses) that the

London season had reached a high point of gaiety; and that, although the

weather had grown inauspiciously warhtful To the rapt mind of Miss Selina Tibbs came a delicious moment

of comparison: precisely the saht Miss Selina lay this flattering unction to her soul, and

wellthick

and fast" The congressional representative of the district was to deliver

a lecture at the court-house; a circus was approaching the county-seat,

and its glories would be exhibited "rain or shine"; the court had cleared

up the docket by sitting to unseeht, even until ten

o'clock--one far that he "had

knowed this hteen year"--and, as excitements come

indeed when they do come, and it seldom rains but it pours, the identical

afternoon of the lecture a strange lady descended froreeted on the platfore Briscoe, and his daughter, Minnie, and (what stirred

wonder to an itch almost beyond endurance) Mr Fisbee! and they then drove

through town on the way to the Briscoe mansion, all four, apparently, in a

fluster of pleasure and exhilaration, the strange lady engaged in earnest

conversation with Mr Fisbee on the back seat

Judd Bennett had had the best stare at her, but, as he immediately fell