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Wilford would not have exchanged Katy for a dozen Sybils, but there was about the latter a flash and sparkle very fascinating to most men, and Wilford felt hiretted leaving it, wishing as he did so that in sos Katy wasupon hi se with a careless, easy abandon, while he ran up the steps of his oelling, where Katy waited for him In this state of ratifying Sybil herself could not have done better But alas, there were many points where Katy fell far below this standard; so after speaking of Sybil's inquiries for his wife, he went on to talk of Sybil herself, telling how much she was admired and how superior she was to thethat he felt more anxious that Katy should make a favorable impression upon her than any one of his acquaintance, as she would be sure to note the slightest departure from her code of etiquette How Katy hated the words etiquette, and style and e, and how she dreaded this Sybil Grandon, who see creature she was described to be Thoughts of the secret picture and the dread fancy did not trouble her now, for she was sure of Wilford's love; but she had sometimes dreaded the return of Sybil Grandon, and now that she had come, she felt for aher which she tried to shake off, succeeding at last, for perfect faith in Wilford was to her a strong shield of defense, and her only trouble was a fear lest she should fall in the scale of coht be instituted between herself and Mrs Grandon

Nestling close to Wilford, she said, half earnestly, half playfully: "I will try not to disgrace you when I e the conversation to soan to talk of their house, thus diverting her own mind frobear, Wilford never h Juno and Bell, the first of ent into raptures over her, while the latter styled her a silly, coquettish ho would appear er, and not throw herself quite so soon into the market That she should of course meet her some time, Katy knew, but she would not distress herself till the time arrived, and so she dismissed her fears, or rather lost thenity as mistress of a house