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"Did he get well?" Katy asked, her eyes filling with tears at the picture Morris drew of Ja in his wheel chair, and trying to co instru his poor back were applied

"No, he will always be a cripple, till God takes him to Himself," Morris said, and then Katy asked about the mother and sisters--were they proud, and did he like them much?

"They were very proud," Morris said; "but they were always civil to ht flush on his cheek as he told her of the stately wohty Juno, a beauty and a belle, and lastly of Arabella, whom the family nicknamed Bluebell, from her excessive fondness for books, a fondness which made her affect a contempt for the fashionable life her mother and sister led

It was very evident that neither of the young ladies holly to Morris' taste, but of the two he preferred the Bluebell, for though very imperious and self-willed, she really had some heart, some principle, while Juno had none This was Morris' opinion, and it disturbed the little Katy, as was very perceptible fro of her foot upon the carpet and the working of her hands

"Hoould I appear by the side of those ladies?" she suddenly asked, her countenance changing as Morris replied that it was almost impossible to think of her as associated with the Camerons, she was so wholly unlike them in every respect

"I don't believe I shocked Wilford so very ain a heavy pain shot through Morris' heart, for he saw ht of the young girl, who continued: "And if he was satisfied, I guess his mother and sisters will be Anyway, I don't want you to make me feel how different I am fro aside all selfishness, Morris wound his arolden hair, just as he used to do when she was a child and caently: "My poor Kitty, you do like Wilford Cauess I do," and Katy's voice was a half sob "I could not help it, either, he was so kind, so--I don't knohat, only I could not help doing what he bade me Why, if he had said: 'Jump overboard, Katy Lennox,' I should have done it, I know--that is, if his eyes had been upon ine what I mean?"