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Frank and outspoken as a child, she acted as she felt, and did try on

the bridal dress, screaht when Valencia

fastened the veil and let its fleecy folds fall gracefully around her

"I wonder what Arthur will think, I do so wish he was here," she had

said, ordering a hand-glass brought that she ht see herself from

behind and know just how much her dress did trail, and how it looked

beneath the costly veil

She was very beautiful in her bridal robes, and she kept thean to chide her for her vanity, and, even then, she lingered

before the mirror, as if loath to take them off

"I don't believe in presentiments," she said to Fanny; "but, do you

know, it seeain," and

she shtfully the folds of the heavy silk she had just

laid upon the bed "I don't knohat can happen to prevent it, unless

Arthur should die He was so pale last Sunday and seemed so weak that

I shuddered every time I looked at him I mean to drive round there

this afternoon," she continued "I suppose it is too cold for hie, either"

She went to the parsonage that afternoon, and the woeous colors of her carriage blanket

flashing in the wintry sunshine just as the diaayly towards them

There was a little too much of the lady patroness about her quite to

suit the plain Hanoverians, especially those ere neither high