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Lucy had insisted that she did not care to go to Saratoga She

preferred re in Hanover, where it was cool and quiet, and where

she would not have to dress three tiinning to find that there was so one's own pleasure, and shesuch a sober nun-like

air, that no one who saw her could fail to laugh, it was so at

variance with her entire nature

But Lucy was in earnest; Hanover had a greater attraction for her

than all the watering-places in the world, and she rateful when Fanny threw her influence on her

side, and so turned the scale in her favor Fanny was glad to leave

her dangerous cousin at home, especially after Dr Bellaa, and, as she carried great weight with

both her parents, it was finally decided to let Lucy re in July she saw the fale feeling of regret

that she was not of their nuretting anything There was the parish school to

visit, and a class of children to hear--children ere no longer

ragged, for Lucy's money had been poured out like water, till even

Arthur had re lecture on the

subject offor

the jelly Lucy had pro where she could watch the road and see just who turned

the corner, her voice always sounding a little ed to Arthur Leighton, and her eyes, always

glancing at the bit of cracked mirror on the wall, to see that her

dress and hair and ribbons were right before Arthur caht to see her there and hear her as she read

to the poor woreatly iratefully upon her, and then walked back with

her to Prospect Hill, where he soht the luscious fruits hich the garden