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Even through the darkness Anna could see the blue eyes flash and the

delicate nostrils dilate as Lucy gave vent to her wrath against the

luckless Thornton Hastings

"You will a He is always there in the summer, but

don't you speak to hi you frivolous

next"

An amused smile flitted across Anna's face as she asked: "But won't

you, too, be at Saratoga? I supposed you were all going there"

"_Cela dépend_," Lucy replied "I would sotireme for his deaconess in your place"

There was a call just then fro iood-by kiss, Anna went

down the stairs and out upon the piazza, where her aunt aiting

Mr Leighton had accepted Fanny's invitation to stay to tea, and he

handed the ladies to their carriage, lingering aout of town to-one

"You will think of us so Anna's hand

"St Mark's will be lonely without you God bless you and bring you

safely back"

There was a war of Arthur's hat, and

then the carriageby Lucy's side, fastening a rosebud in her hair, and at that

sight the gleam of hope, which for an instant had crept into her

heart, passed aith a sigh