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Van Astrachan's great satisfaction, and concerning which Mr. Van Astrachan had many suppressed chuckles and knowing winks at Polly. "Now, pa, don't you say a word," said Mrs. Van Astrachan. "Oh, no, Polly! catch me! I see a great deal, but I say nothing," said the good gentleman, with a jocular quiver of his portly person. "I don't say any thing, oh, no! by no manner of means."
Van Astrachan's latch-key; and, when the carriage stopped, he helped Rose to alight, and went up the steps of the house. "Miss Ferguson," he said abruptly, "I have something I want to say to you." "Not now, not to-night," said Rose, hurriedly. "I am too tired; and it is too late." "To-morrow then," he said: "I shall call when you will have had time to be rested. Good-night!"
Van Astrachan's black furs, as it grew cold, but at last the air was so sharp and the storm clearly so near, that we were all driven in to that nice, cosey parlor at the Tiptop House, and sat round the hot stove, not sorry to be sheltered, indeed, when we heard the heavy rain on the windows.
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