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Very extensive preparations wereto occur on the 15th After much debate and

consultation, Fanny had decided to take the doctor then; and thus she,

too, shared largely in the general interest and excite

Both brides elect seemed very happy, but in a very different way; for,

while Fanny was quiet and undeayly about the house--now in the kitchen, where the cake

waswas done, and

then flitting to her own room in quest of Valencia, as sent on

divers errands, the little lady thinking that, now the time was so

near, it would be proper for her to remain indoors and not show

herself in public quite as freely as she had been in the habit of

doing

So she remained at home, while they missed her in the back streets and

bylanes, the Widow Hobbs, as still an invalid, pining for a sight

of her bright face, and only half compensated for its absence by the

charities which Valencia brought; the s Mrs Hobbs feel keenly how greatly she

thought herself de to such a heathenish place as that

The Hanoverians, too, missed her in the street, but for this they

s at Prospect Hill and