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Mark Ray was there, too, and I saw him smile co at the tiood fellow, and I really think we have him to thank in a measure for Katy's successful _début_ He was the first to take her fro with her up and down the hall by way of reassuring her, and once as they passed me I heard her say: "I feel so ti countrified"

"Never mind," he answered "Act yourself just as you would were you at home in Silverton, where you are known That is far better than affecting a htened wonderfully The stiffness which at first was perceptible passed off, and she was Katy Lennox, queening it over all the city belles, who, because she was entle a miniature court at one end of the roouests crowded around; flattering her until her little head ought to have been turned if it was not To do her justice, she bore her honors well, and ere in the carriage, and father complimented her upon her success, she only said: "If I pleased you all I alad"

So many calls as we had the next day, and so many invitations as there are now on our table for Mrs Wilford Cameron, while our opera box between the scenes is packed with beaus, until one would suppose Wilford ht be jealous; but Katy takes it all so quietly and ratified for his sake, that I really believe he enjoys it , even when she would rather stay at home, so if she is spoiled, the fault will rest with hi to wear upon her, for she is not accustomed to our late hours, and soo she must, for Wilford wills it so, and she is but an auto

Why can't mother let her alone, when everybody seems so satisfied with her? Sohted as they pretend, and so she keeps training and tor her until I do not wonder that Katy souilty of an iht, when, after she was ready for the opera, she ca in the luxury of a loose dressing goith my feet on the sofa Latterly she has taken todown before the fire into which her blue eyes looked with a steady stare, she said: "I wish I ht I have heard this opera before, and it will be so tireso, for I never care to watch the acting I did at first, when it was new, but now it seems insipid to see theave a weary yawn