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"Wouldn't it be rich, though, thebetween your Aunt Betsy and Juno?" and the tears fairly poured down the young , and after his merriment had subsided, Mark talked with him candidly, sensibly, of Katy Lennox, whose cause he war Wilford that he was far too sensitive with regard to faood fellow on the whole, but too outrageously proud," he said "Of course this Aunt Betsy in her pongee, whatever that may be, and the uncle in his shirt sleeves, and this mother whom you describe as weak and ambitious, are objections which you would rather should not exist; but if you love the girl, take her, family and all Not that you are to transport the whole colony of Barlows to New York," he added, as he saw Wilford's look of horror, "butyourself upon the fact that your position is such as cannot well be affected by any ht"

This was Mark Ray's advice, and it had great weight with Wilford, who knew that Mark came, if possible, from a better line of ancestry than hirandhter of a lord And still Wilford hesitated, waiting until the winter was over before he caranite rock He had made up his mind at last to marry Katy Lennox if she would accept him, and he told histhey were all kept at ho of Bell's eyelashes, a conte of her shoulders, and then she went on with the book she was reading, wondering if Katy was at all inclined to literature, and thinking if she were that it ht be easier to tolerate her Juno, as expected to say the sharpest things, turned upon him with the exclamation: "If you can stand those two feather beds, you can doher disapproval, she quitted the roo articles on the follies of the age, soon followed her sister to elaborate an idea suggested to her e

Thus left alone with her son, Mrs Cameron tried all her powers of persuasion upon hi she said influenced hi which she suddenly confronted him with the question: "Shall you tell her all? A husband should have no secrets of that kind from his wife"