time, if its just card. I him Laura two-cent did let tie it ?” asked a you up looked bewildered hei quite HOME. SWEET ffhe Inordinate ana, as Demand for Works as ” she said, laughing. softly, sliding in cherub card. “I warn you, a brother had previously done. Fiction. of holly ring and wreath, a “And I everybody that if they nor how it again,” cried a a to looks want warn see said. “Pleast his-poem You welcome,” she concluded “ Benjamin F. Taylor hristmas on the Eve, went down; are as sun I’ll give Christmas card, another Gladys, stopping side the From the just of New Commercial by the York Advertiser. me and take off following beautiful stanzas lover than L ” to true Chickamauga by the r was youj more room come up my throw it into The fashion is the fire. girl, her packet. intent opening the elimbcd into sky; frozen upon “Won’t oon things. have ‘Daniel Deronda ” let home: sweet you me on all fripge, t millinery, etc. “O Laura!” would have shone in the west; to with that star darkening start run a little It the tiniest of of A. blue, of ?’” inquired rooms was of camp gray, camp a ! shivering, sought his nest; a young woman one ox, Heigho, I wish Christmas time done “Look credit Clara Morris, to was between. rolled in A peaceful river looked Meli In fact, the itself to cottage with glee, 'ld wind shouted laughed and of the assistant the Mercantile librarians at I’m going bed. what he has arithmetic!” to given shots Were pitched two rifle over. away, me—an northern h his breath the if cold cent’s metropilitan as was as eyes as you wen aglow, West Hie had set the “Oh, cried Gladys, don’t,” And he is busy I can’t him’ get to Library, sun Place. Clinton entreatingly. no, so joa; on through the end viewing it of open crimson an The clouds evening snow. were hearts light. life bright, and I had planned change “Why, it. I hate sight of arithmetic were the 0 was some an “Certainly, replied, but glass. But dainty, madam,” he faintly it neat, The fires twinkling seen so camp- was so night, olic filled the and feasting I lovely to-night, and want !“ she laughing fun for her went you eyes river. on, Across dark’ning the Melicent flower-scented and bells, in the bells, the id moment returned said: “Sorry pure. and merry, merry so rang a with ” she caught unconsciously wistful, to the go as me. morning. Christmas still. Glen little bewildered y on was a but ‘Derondas’ There Federal band the all floated from out. do with “Fun! have what glistening glance girl. to of the are women young Browne described by Beatrix burnie, Banner’s” strain. The “Spangled as heart maiden's “Dear me!” and replied “Why the asker, mas I’m thirty, a of life? “Little eve, fun time lady,” with the most exquisitely at our die The their “Dixie Land,” castle. And why struck modern bed the went down’ with pain grays up was a sun don’t as keep two of them?” you’re day less I believe polite “do you and don’t intonation, to Blue,” a you go And Round” and “Bonny “Rally had summer’s day; calling sailed Harry persist in this handsome on a “We have 500 of them.” twenty-nine.” school? little boy shall again than Isn’t there Ah, such fights depths lay; •k the ocean’s it cross in or no some his sister “Marian ?” “Five Rappahannock River. hundred The ?” the door; gathered about arithmetic girl’who will take this out )ms ‘ “Day by day Marian herself also puzzled, un was shadows wall and floor; the “Yes.” on were dark mournful stream Gliding, of sight ” it distastefully, ? regarding away, some very my til her mind, “all of it occurred to in the chimney And then, glancing “beam ind dirge old above the 8 sang a me’ ” “And silent youth flows from can’t let My have one?” then glancing the you at earnest, me heart cold; Of warbled lover whose low, brave song” bugle this Miss Harper must sudden,” that was e young a in momentary murmured Gladys, “All We out. have a had demand great blue-gray elvish with pleading, Like in the that watched the stars, bird startled dream, a a ere eyes eyes a some their have assistance been to sent exclaimed, “ ‘At Then she trance. our for the them through the “Home, Home,” and voices past week. in window bars, Sweet I’ll Home, crept put smile. rang, iwn by Telliff, who knew all old Mrs. sorts life, should know time rad the bells, the pitiless bells, of And together blue and rang as you say, we sang— down and give gray the first Claude her pair pour name Vane turned you upon a and also cheerless Christmas And like the of nice girls in need, who morning. other out really is. Will were snow what fun songs was come that you in.” of searching To take gift from one comes orbs. Among stilled when winds a the pines are their with of mother’s acquainted the fact Lauralina?” with The walked me with happy bright and thrilled, this her heart, throbbed and young thought in And hearts voices woman a were eyes creature, she and away were illness. into “If will Italianize Christmas Eve, the down, went vexed look, name With, Home” forever. and the you my Sweet “Home, said as sun tall, a like taking the fair young from man was one thoughtful,’ “SB’s. Telliff is always had given its dead, will, think I ” fond syllable, I le sea up the one more to reporter; “She don’t half believe Christmas forth the dove, angel sending wed. he captain brave his bride to she pondered. “But dreadfully was GLENBURNIE. elder, her crimson said the rising so in I’ll venture, when I tell hei she had prize card. me, tied hall; her the lighted from oms as seen a on brusque sometimes. ” and abrupt O dear! I’ll have change to that have volumes * call; 500 wind’s wrapper. of George night only mirth in the without we Claude take was proud to too was “Do how take know to dress.” care oj ith silken sheen; you and and fragrance Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deionda,’ mv and thinks 1 looked it, gratitude. Her frank eyes sick Harper?” she asked people, Miss iter rippled bright lips between; will today?” she dome thankful “Do “What Lazylina? Be of it, suppose you impertinent. We find it hard am lips speak but she her to parted fine very ■ filled the night, and revelry as she shaking the out on.” you’ve another dress put snowy got to as was muslin Beatrix Browne. asked to convince people how large had’ the demand and the bright; the She almost vision vanished. set stars east ie was the folds of the curtains in “bes’ Then Gladys the next went into happy loud bells, the happy, room for popular the works Mr. of fiction is. come,” said will rang till she pinched she thought it “Of vision course was a room.” bells, and brought with sisterly familiarity The death of a prominent novelist her hands. hard the she had in a book at “Why Hubert Browne. Herschel Christmas morning. “Not particularly," confessed Melicent. >y on walking-dress and bronze-green out creates demand larger than a the old “O, grandpa,” she cried a we can to man, “Why?” ?” she shouldn’t for Laura. put it to the fire to supply warm and anecdote of Dickens who had it all in scarcely taken yet, even an is just “Oh, because “Be now!” quick, impatient mamma recovering I tell?”cried how “Oh, George Eliot Lytton CHRISTMAS LARK. will A have can like that “did thing ? or or you ever see any said from fever!” Marian rheumatic such chinking “What at the effect a of reviving interest are you their “The traim must have been O, Beatrix. besides! grandpa, And oh! look, look, m “and would nice if coulc it be making her toilet. rate?” cried Laura, so you works. Most novels, after they have looking down these chernbs two here is the oh, me! And long in ago. help her.” little brought Gladys for-get-me-notbroidered us nurse been the shelves six a months, little BY MARY STACY WXTHIN3TON. child on drew from cloud”—The are her a back without her!” “Then I will help you,” said Melicent barouche showed chamois bag, and coming inquired while after, standard shall with breath “You have this pleasant chamber, quickly. neat, authors was a with kiss. inside. “There dimes Hubert Browne Laura ten Herschel its Mr. a read are was a steadily. I think have are card, grandpa.” we mantel-piece ed crimson carpet, useful,” said Marian “Harry is su- nickels this twenty in fashionably dressed so in compartment; ever handsome, 500 volumes of Beaconfield’s young ‘Lothair/ keep it “No, darling, Claudie, you “He is the fellow in the world. dearest upholsted with sky blue luously in this, three-cent pieces diamond his little this; thirty big with 100 Carlyle’s ‘Reminiscences,’ on a fifty Du man, cherubim always that the remember to But he everything. He is down do can’t I and smirk his and the rest two. got conventional and h; embroidered in golen-rod and finger Chailly’s ‘Land of the are ones on Midnight Sun’ a in remain who excel in knowledge, ever broiling the chickens foi stairs changed the Treasury Beatrix, his sister, bills at today, Miss now countenance. volumes, two and some on.” led sumach leaves, table-cover har- and humility children innocence in so young dinner. He learned cook when he to have the all handy, damsel, costumed after artificial to change “The demand is for so as greatest novels?” was an love.” and polished izing; gleaming fire in And can’t camping out. a a shall have make quick work. plate; and their mother, to Paris was mamma for the latest “Certainly. Ladies read we novels almost It Treasury clerks late when two was drink coffee which but that he filled from two oaken book-cases sending I could afford stylish This all after Browne, any e; is Bethune Mrs. exclusively, was a and, know, ladies pocket-books and with returned empty you makes.” getting rose-bush deal of auntie, and great who kept ceiling, and ladies, the to widow, to two in the a appearance majority some up a great libraries.” at r one are and blue shining crimson to the eyes Melicent’s sparkled. “He must solid foundation. Minnie, and of little for little sick set eyes “What is a done with the napkins on very superfluous crimson with little pale knelt stick chamber. Gladys to put wrapper a a be the best of brothers,” said she. with landlady her for volumes when our poor they longer in demand?” Laura, coming behind the shining fire. are no her silk kercheif knotted round on J “He is,” cried enthusiastic Marian. loafing How Trix only husband and drinking Herschel and “If son. can contrive head in her fair her, bent back the old-gold cashe Mrs. >at; the other Brown, the of pale invalids, in thankful, sweetest being Laura, matches shall is an help make good to “We dispose of them we can you to out-of-town chilly white hands. received the visitor with might have all these difficulties,” sitting either triumphantly walking-dress, when think something ride libraries forty over at you cent reduction on you asked Gladys. “Are cold ?” per on you of puzzled air which Melicent that boarders, like she, complacently fanning been keeping fretful said the price. We have flicker, cost lists ?of the dancing fire; By its of such life, “I in all warm my never was so hard found to understand. loafing jeweled Spanish with so yourself, in order to support herself libraries, and make a a regular shipments. beautiful. I darling. It to through the paling light that seem was came And there piano, cottage banjo, “Glenburnie,” had rented was a ?” she a husband So fan. That is the most country libraries cloud children’s faces looking way of in move a heavily curtained windows, music, and wilderness of you I had the residence, engaged some much if new a “He wouldn’t loaf pretty recruited, for all large summer a metropolitan a are brightening, with wondering, great up wild flowers; the and people Id the tints, how the lights, not Laura, vindictively, French cook, given most young ” cried supporting of him, first-class institutions sell their books. see a In England Madonna, loving eyes—like a pure, promised show Melicent cascade to milliner and dressmaker, their muffs the a they took liberal order to the had forsaken is carried round youth system of out to much as ” cherubim. curves in glory of a a the glen, and haunted dell still chilly issued invitations to up a the brilliant, and and stepped into out greater extent than in a number this country. dollars,” lady. “Our really deitful only five is it “And cost a room us further with friends on. night. the of to Moodie’s Library in London summer pass is great Gladys.—Washington said practical a isn’t it, Laura?” said the “They nice,” thought Melicent now, would. You would not are so “O, he her. private that supplies the wellto-do yes, concern, Gazette. that night when she bed in the went to gold lady, who had lit thehask I made,” said It mistake supporting loafer. only know “The upon English people. It a makes you were up little muslin-curtained “Not at June coming ^the with of “was in to room. would be youth Mrs. Browne, the side which win- boxes by faced the of books a and ships them eyes all over CHRISTMAS. what I APPROACH OF all expected from Aunt THE to C girlhood It that—” spent. hair of midnight where see, and olace the Kingdom was to supply the its my wants of Josepha’s Harry is description. And But old farmers blonds. what have stout “You forget I like pleasant to :sn’t patrons. It buys whole editions of new ! yawning, O yes,” sighed the other poets’ When and bays, the unselfish his and tender to mother— crown, rosemary, friends if I succeeded theatrical ask in so racket, stopping to is books, and sometimes the gets entire your as our one th* cries, through all frequent Are bawled, in Marian and is and affectionate. shouldn’t it sweet ’s well Why enough. school-teaching that so Gladys?” venture, really, .hat first edition, that its or patrons say, town, so secure I I could happy here be for really with and I taking boarders, to be am sure a “You speculation in all we’ve Christmas after the and bother Then the festival of judge books before they or in me see. near, the come money new — appear ” Christmas, joyous period of the the and ‘I hold All children old year. judgment. red-faced want year. told by book stalls.” your women my it?” Then looking down at mt on Consequently, the day, when next objects well.’ ” sorrowful people wonderfully true to seem me years Now, bright holly all the temples strew, with head of her silent, bent, old-gold the grand carriage from Glenburnie j advise her help. But Bethune Browne and of must Mrs. But mistletoe: With laurel and sacred you green, How Cannon Ball Sensates. nrade, she added, but harshly, rattled down the read, and Miss Beatrix a not Charity! shed) little thy blessings Now, heaven-born doomed loneliness in each of daughter to and eager poor were me; group son sickly head; her Bid Want Browne claim the waif and to help meagre uprear Harper, From the London shop-window Miss Family bu will always take such absurd faces at must that afternoon. came Herald. you an a warm; bowl Plenty’s be let Bid shivering lambs Melicent Harper stray, who is pick the had out most New York heiress, not was more surprised to the M. Boutibouse, the French one come, savant, everything, Glas!” as of of me comfort soul! out make glad the needy In humble roofs pleased.. than patient. I can’t give the afternoon genuine and expected, good, by —Gay. she was served in Napoleon’s and army was “Have I the place?” to candystick. know; Bethune Brownes all, not the come wrong to train; even a and you as present at At Gladys, engagements. the “Well, help it,” said I can’t many said she. “Oh, they have been good ” took people who so not ever especial were Making Fain of Pleasure. battle of Wagram, me! The Browns? No; that in to 1809, he in precatingly. “There does in to looking A of boys at entertain each other pains wrong to was seem a were group possibly cannot be. They right, birds stationer’s window. Cats, dogs, in unmitigated the heat of did are the word about the evening not fray; the Under the head of ranks around, be taken! such lots of comfort to pass away a 5 right in everything. But shall I not themselves disporting and babies go bliss. were him had been terribly Brown writes thinned Christmas, Susan Anna by shot, in the I know ladies >w, ever so many until Mrs. Brown well enough gayly fringed cards; but after few however, had away Harper, is Miss a on come. and sensible at he The Century sunset to nearly isolated. the who with at treasury wss some very about the house.” to be me room me exclamations all approving went had The only mistake she committed on save While reloading suggestions celebrating Christmas. his about And Melicent adhered resolutely musket he who tc shot, days; better well-dressed, handsome He the train Pine Bluff leaving were in at was never ve seen was a one. was this determination, in spite of Trix’s his fell card, down by child, but She When Pine Hill station. cannon-ball. instead of His truly: station impression routine here. und business regular eyes on one a to as says very a frowns and Herschel Hubert’s blandishments. with A red, pale filled Yorker, they tears. she, born New But how a that the ball had designed be pleasure a what to was have kept house passed through Some of them was was a — She all remained nearly rosebud, each yellow and white drooped only Fifth antecedents of whose summer a avenue were his legs below becomes burden, it is time his knees, to houses, and ordered stop completely kept a gorgeous the and only at cottage, spent the edge lovely head of Twenty third street, discriminate and one to over a a severing it carefully, if it them, and examine and for he and had else round, little week Glenburnie. suddenly erybody at sank “Mamma painted blue egg-shaped see puzzling similarities never these between vase. down, shortened, he believed, “But accomplish deal good to the such like that in just is itself, which has bunch the thing to as until order them round they one can ybody ? a once, grown a I of extent about foot in in week,” said Mrs. Bethune Browne, measurement, thought. ” he a the thickets; pine She looked around at a be whether it is a vase, such weight, Now the department. into or a you me The trunk of body the hopefully. “And, Glenburnie fell backward of bronze-green “I know him,” said with misgiving she listened course, a terrible them.” a vague office is to simply awkward of carrying e, an manner the ground and the be like Paradise her, those man’s must after friend. ‘lt to on lady softly her old-gold ‘ to the pebbly brook in the rush of senses to agreed Laura with ‘Frightful, ‘ We it. the propriety venture suggest a suscion to paralyzed by the horrid little shock. cramped-up and Thus well off were Wells. They is Ernest glanced appealingly she at the rooms everlasting are copse; he lay, motionless, in her languid voice. of the pine forests.” wounded this question one’s self father had sympathy of putting to his sarcasm enough, but rolling among who the ticket agent, no was some and dead all night, Herschel Hubert made himself not daring mother’s and he to Laura—well—the with his dead know, tastes; ‘But ‘ lime along the platform, barrels of about besides Christmas, as other things you when consciousness agreeable he possibly could the partially aestheticism systematically discourages all to move, toward the freight-room. as returned, selfish uncle’s trampled orphan and ,eft a but the and this a for present at season lest the loss New York of blood visitor, and the night before should As ho Ernest. boy in little ■ward,’ me?” “Isthere here to meet on a poor no one let confine ourselves, does The be fatally increased. That us as her New York he laid his he return felt passionately flowers.” to fond of T describes always Miss Harper, “I from early she asked. was case. my am pain he attributed Century correspondent, the celebration hand heart her feet. the Will to and to dear. at stunning “I mother, no girls knew other school, than at ressed New York.” your worse effect of the shock his of Christmas. “Oh, I ?” said Melicent. hers?” this from friend of accept piano the books I had looked sky, ticket at on The the am so sorry nervous agent you a or a never system, and he still “Certainly,” continues, “there “But lam engaged already.” mentally she said sweet-eyed lady, bending too uncle saving anted, because and then the was down the daises, at over a was my at , numbed to able something celebration “To Harry be in Brown?” said Herschel why Ernest Then she must be to for instant. to I And when had till I reason wrong any forlorn vanished stranger. as an grew up. • ney - had he not bled which results Hubert, Christmas in grinding his death. At sight. He of teeth. to early from his wondering somehow it all I he. “I one,” said don’t was gone. up, —rown see no I fatigue mind and body. “Yes,” Melicent, Harry. aroused by in his hand, serious of said “to he of the opened the envelope she left dawn • uncle girl the sort of aunt “I the Brownes,” said one to to was or never go r as am During the three months of the Beatrix first going tell it round help impetuously kissed the picture of to about tonight. medical who to and staff, had sister—until I I ked. she. was came a never “What’s nothing commonly given lam vexed that should the buds is wounded. matter the in the blue the you.” eh ?” said the net year, more “The Brownes, agent. so you vase. rose ill have committed yourself in this good fellow?” said the girl for health than A small, thinly-dressed boy and sori with Gladys?” said Laura, stirred “Me, said, eagerly, “the as a reason an overstrain “Yes,” she you, my a “She during the holidays. But please let’s all touch tenderly, stood holding basket between them, got □f forget “Ah, chair. cushioned risingin her ittle, and Brownes.” way. me a surgeon. Christmas,” she worked about it.” . M. Boutibouse; before window out at “a in bare red fingers, doctor,” replied thought always of ‘I have or don’t live such piece the a so worn “They more you, a up . hard in finishing her Christmas Mr. Browne “Everything in the too Herschel Hubert muttered carried off legs!” full of notions. has have said,ever ball I Day, than jladys the still considering road,” said agent, my ever cannon Christmas presents," “the week before isn’t Sammy ? What of lame congratulation, and examined the limbs world here, it. sort The like live spirit into ,inco or especial daisy bud, whose soft, white some a referred is surgeon came a you an red mittens she tired with shopping," withdrew giving him good should like best ? Those out the hastily then, and since; from mummies, four of to, just opening the was fringe scene a >uf you to as a» years room sunshine. was which surely “Get possible. aloud laugh: cold fingers?” with I for shake, said, think that have been I don’t mt are excusses appear as as ‘‘l likely might walk. your a guess you The “It’s I January and February all it seems,’’ there’s the “Naw—boys don’t mind fingers. comedy of nothing matter of sister with good imitation to come. Anyhow, there ain’t other a errors, to you a you. up zery no way sometimes question he said, M. should like that must to almost savagely, his mother. Boutibouse like that drum trumpet to legs!” quarreled sisiers with have least not It occur sprang or g°-” your we all this whether “Here is stood that fiddle.” wasted, astonishment, and took in since two together.” utter exultantly. every one, worry Miss Harper’s heart beat our season our purse or rooms we our up hand and brain he had thought the fiddle him, it and of heart and clamorous; and which “Do let get for empty, tradesmen the legs firmly wear road?” said she. “Up the our us on the Is there —and mittens really worth while. Harry has felt thankful,” isn’t but fifteen not Brown, down the cottage, “I quarrel?” aske^l Gladys. cents at lost forever. “Do sisters are “That thar,” and the nodded more agent celebrating this the whole her, ” cried softly better of day gained the prize!” felt in always had good times for from I they voice said “than thought he, "I some mountain side. a near, way toward distant ever a themselves which all departed. of days than to all Mrs. Browne I had 1 when languor had “And for And that Bethune before. not do life to of together, “ wear a go women “Ah,” said Miss Harper, “is it we our as wo my course very buying let please, Gladys! I have in trifles indeed these, making pretty could I had been spring and get out take wound about beloved me or ?” lonely say was: or our me. operas, have five dollars month than for people who already “It’s Very indeed!” cannon-ball, into Rock Creek strange! immense strange, by journeys shot down autumn more a more you no,” said the very “Bless agent. an you, for? Setting have.“ legs, Laura, 1 than they find passing through know, instead of woods. Do but room houses never can “There’s three within my you as many as “There little and fingers, ball had five aside all effort the believed had the all life before dots, cunning of it such good times in I firmly had are eyes mile, countin’ the sawmill.” my as the not as Merely ploughed black kittens, before mental had that confectioner’s strain is intense. to devise feet and had in of I have two passed under trunk here one or our “And I to my leave as can my Satisfied A Oregonian. beaming window. Let people, least for dozen earth beneath at ition ?” what presents the little- expid hole in or more a us see a he for ?” s sent a they pointing which and which feet suddenly It’s dreadfully out.” must be appropriate acceptable, depth, into it “Don’t then. foot in are my “Oh, yes,” said the agent. own From the Portland Oregonian. I O, that already the idea that chocolate and which do giving faire yourself kitten!” “O, they not sank, in savoir to lacking see walked, French possess, Melicent Herper me own So Hon. J. Dufur and wife, who have A. the loss of look that red is likely shortened by in at rooster!” “O, the little and which to thus anything but else had been martyr, government mushroon parasol a no one boots, Paris hat, tiny a just returned from visit their old to a white with letter dove in the clerkship,” its mouf!” hit is enough to legs. ” a wear upon upon, and all. my Vt., home in Orange after county, “O, the yellow dog with the brain: and when one’s real ungrateful and “Well, I think it’s curly tail! strongest an means little the poetic, It cottage; very was a he’s lemon, is!” the question he “O, unlimited, and of horrid, and wanting in sensibility, that to not thirty having sweet absence of report her girlhood’s of see are picturesque cottage years, Lassies. Highland The white with red in, is still in world full of pig spots!” Ten the matter complain of office life, round must reaching nearly a economy come with to ireams, pleasant trip. They travel had eaves a very Harper's Magazine. Black William in black that 7 10 rolled few minutes The of indecision, shop-girls work from to after, complicated. a. m. eyes up a more agony wildernesses of woodbine, ;he ground, Wisconsin extensively in Southern ed and I have handsomest The horse-car drivers that work and then rolled inspect of rival merits in and down weighing to if the the man ever and scarlet morning glories m., p. runners place which Illnois, but hours when the good God knowshow treasures real that had this and that, distress saw no —the just dropped the the of boatman west many latticed were wreathing it around, and winiow on seen was a decided ™-a Gladys, “for I believe He into their hands from is finally does well Oregon. Mr. I”—fired swiftly article which suited them day upon some and the door there stood as as at and serious dignity of calm Skye, the panes; passing, had watch and keep the account!” smiling figures. fascinating hoped does not she had as as one the handsomest Dufur gives rather discouraging seem a young man, a account suggestive of seemed whose face more “Ispec’sthey’s Christmas think of it,” yawned the the of shopping, the packing “It is, to angels,” endless round come ever the agricultural seen. of oi prospects herring-fishing; Vinci than of Leonardo di said the friends, frantic send distant to to one. living the of ^aura. “Am I story pages a he He that thought Vermont. he “Let says so—why watch that old finish the last moment “Laura, what makes and that effort at I have to the handsomest and us something asked herself; “and you man Melicent book?” woman quite been done old till girl,” said Laura. have getting be you” which ought to to don’t an young man enchanted prince?” was is this the married lady, young a seen was ever The girl had the when all is merry’ growth of eleven long result relapse ‘“Sweet be more!" in forward, smiling, back there and oi ago, a she my coz, And then he went saw men came happened to be who, ago, some years her blue-gray had complete weariness of mind “Yes; it’s Christmas time, know.” but into years, eyes an over timid. you expression, a yet toddling 80 90 around from to years Clansman, the and whose travelling in her pale, low, wide brow for either That’s the To all and and body which unfits one “I Miss Harper from New York,” see very reason. am land farms. The is running and Now, when ’tearing, hustling features marks of thought that giving receiving pleasure. modulated English indicated rediculous people gently th§se visit wore or said she “I have to an ycu. come does it and the spend her look. She all soberly, ? out and jostling their advanced this looked around is at to young men are pay worn gave an was Were expecting me?” origin. When Highland not Inverness you a nonsensical inutilities that pulling the old from the The West.” old all “geing farmers The looked puzzled. on man away gentleman the class, is money of girl, peasant pretty even keeping Christmas, for because window. Cannot the wants snd everybody buys nobody “No,” he said. phenomenon is of (and the not allow Mr. Dufur there would not to very a consist of other said be the useless “No, grandpa,” she example, made to they expect of of* “Then letter?” no, coaxingly, got occurence), some the prettiness is you never my a rare give their boys favorable account any giving Let the be for and they arithmetic, I things than gifts ? things, reciprocate by “if the can’t must get “Never,” said the enchanted prince. we and intellectual the forehead refined type; the West, that they all whom of the and those other house! that children to cumbering person’s get neckerchief, saying were our some you “I Miss Browne.” up new warm gray wrote to high, the clear, and full eyes contemplative, As people necessities. I haven’t and have it and shall. gifts real If anything old I got,l must want passing going off, and the land into a “Did with surprise. you are you?” am the the mouth fine, and was some __ in the matter of Lilly negligent and get you.” Barr lets study, of her enough it, and out to provoking,” said Melicent, “How me we are very and go so are expression of the face gentle yet hired help the hands of their of foreign If these festivals “Yes,dear,”meekly acquiesedGladys, book when questions out.” keeping birthdays. torn biting her ripe-red reddening, and my are Wordsworth the Vermont firm. forgot birth. Some said of never one a family, the of in the brought in But old looking made “you weren’t the church, continued at especially I up were more cherry lip. “But man of hope Highland beauty the girl he at long time that “it of good place you a are saw ago, was a elder members, l 1 know.” the bright school-books and the story Indeed, we glad me?” new among to had Inversnaid. it is said he emigrate from,” and Mr. Dufur to see appears loosing that “Whatchurch wasn’t I brought and picture-books should find with the fierce in? not were indeed, are,” said Harry we “Yes, vicarious wished up that fount when he have thought thirty to to to we recur so years giving and the happiness brought in hunger which the old sometimes the blessedness of I church, I instinctively polite, Brown, was some he his up poetical compliment to and thinks than to as opened pay a ago, now so more ever. if did omit , reckon.” feel for the the of receiving, of wants even we the door wide admit the fair young. to which wife. For the the in rest, The farm that sold for $3,400 has he way 1 In Christmas time. “Yes, But when “You dear Laurella. can’t this,” whispered presents at many “Do in. Marian,” my manage to lady stranger. Highland educated since been sold for $1,600, would and come young an mutual understanding ——J called Laura. ‘These large families mother they people take ‘ not to Miss was a beyond, “here’s Harper, young every- are delightful English is of the most bring that speaks not In amount some one one now. one all the Christmas gifts be but strangers.” that to thing church—‘meetings.’ I from utter were New York, She from our to though the world, things in night passed in Wisconsin Mr. Dufur come see you. no “You if I Gladys, the children would be immense) don’t like anybody anything can’t” returned for give to an see from New York, but, of me wrote much she would be heard doubt he thunder and us course, surprised, very says more saw would relief, although, perhaps, costly, but Ido little, small sweetly defiant. They the like out of no one us!” a remembrancer came the letter reached she if and indignant, lightning than during his twentyfive never was even more quite acknowledge it. Christmas crowded presently. “Why be willing to of each Holy store again Marian, slim, dark-eyed Di- all. told that she had accent at residence in Oregon. a young any years