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"Kate and her husband will take us in for the few days left. When we explain all that we have gone through, she will not be hard-hearted enough to make us go to a hotel until Friday; Margery can come with us." Margery turned upon Mrs. Archibald a pair of eyes filled with earnest inquiry. "I know what you want," said Mrs. Archibald.

'Don't let him come any nearer, said Kate, retiring as far as she could. 'Oh, no, he shall not, rejoined Frank. 'You see I have him secure here. But may I ask you what this means, and whether you expected, this old gentleman?

"Indeed, Kate," said her brother, "the day may come when the sight of a good piece of roast bear's flesh will be no unwelcome sight. If we do not find our way back to Cold Springs before the winter sets in, we may be reduced to as bad a state as poor Jacob and my uncle were in the pine swamps on the banks of the St. John." "Ah!" said Catharine, trembling, "that would be too bad to happen."

Not, indeed, that she supposed she'd be wicked enough to do anything of the kind, but still And influenced by these considerations, Kate determined not to quarrel with Hender, but to avoid speaking to her of Dick. Even with her own people she maintained an attitude of shy reserve until Dick arrived, declining on all occasions to discuss the subject, whether with her husband or mother-in-law.

It was a pledge too solemn to be broken. My father and mother say so, and so does thy father. We may not be able to wed just yet; but if what I hear be true, sure our day of waiting need not be so very long." The colour had come back into her face now; her eyes were sparkling in their old fashion. She looked indeed the same "saucy Kate" that he had known and loved ever since his early boyhood.

With another woman than Kate he might still have argued. But he could only look at her sorrowfully: "When you are older, and have grown more tolerant and forgiving, I'm afraid you will find that you have chosen wrongly." "If ever I should grow tolerant and forgiving," she cried fiercely, "then I will have failed miserably." "Come in, Bowers."

I like better to tell you about ugly blind old Tibbie than about beautiful young Kate. But you shall have your turn. Do not think that we old people do not care for what you care for. We want more than you want a something without which what you like best cannot last. "What did the coch stop for, Annie, lass?" asked Tibbie, as soon as the mail had driven on.

One thing she could not deny him, and that was frankness. He had confessed to her last summer that he was not, or had not been, a good man in the strict sense of the word. She laid down the paper and finished her coffee. She was glad that she did not have to face Kate at each meal.

My disappointment arises from the fact that I've just discovered the young man's identity, and " "You you have?" Kate exclaimed, grasping the edge of the table with a nervous hand. Her father smiled again, bitterly. "Yes, I have," said he, with slow emphasis, "and I regret to say, my dear child, that my diagnosis of his character is precisely what I first thought.

Through the gathering gloom he saw the figure on the cross. And as he stood gazing at it, a message for which he had been waiting blazed up within him. He would not leave the Church! In order to portray this crisis in the life of Kate Marcy, the outcome of which is still uncertain, other matters have been ignored.