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"Oh, thank you, Morris! Kitty will like the frorew only in the hothouse at Linwood "Come in for a moment, please"

"No, thank you," the doctor replied "There is a case of rheumatism just over the hill, and I iven to ood will as yet, for only the Silverton poor dare trust their lives in my inexperienced hands But I can afford to wait," and with another flash of the hazel eyes Morris walked away a pace or two, but, as if struck with so his heated face with his leghorn hat, said, hesitatingly: "By the way, Uncle Ephraim's last payment on the oldin your presence, not to mind unless it is perfectly convenient He must be somewhat straitened just now, as Katy's trip cannot have cost hi full at Mrs Lennox, who for a htly piqued that Morris Grant should take so ht of her uncle's affairs It was natural, too, that he should, she knew, for, widely different as were their tastes and positions in life, there was a strong liking between the oldlived nine years in the fa to them

"Uncle Ephraim did not pay the bills," Mrs Lennox faltered at last, feeling intuitively how Morris' delicate sense of propriety would shrink from her next communication "Mrs Woodhull wrote that the expense should be nothing to me, and as she is fully able, and "

"Lucy Lennox! I ae of wounded pride dyed his cheek

Kate was a connection--distant, it is true; but his blood was in her veins, and his inborn pride shrank froers, while he wondered at hersuspected was literally true Mrs Lennox eak, Mrs Lennox was ahter with people whom the world had placed above her she would stoop to accept that upon which she had no claient and so fond of Katy; and then, I thought it well to give her the advantage of being with such people as coua, besides soan in self-defense, but Morris did not stop to hear more, and hurried off a second ti at the feeling which she called pride, and which she could not understand "If Katy can go with the Woodhulls and their set, I certainly shall not prevent it," she thought, as she continued her arrange so much that it was more like what she reo