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"Co to say to

you"

She spoke in little e how

expressive of moods a whisper one wrong

"Are you angry withbefore

Zenobia in a drooping attitude "What have I done? I hope you are not

angry!"

"No, no, Priscilla!" said Hollingsworth, s "I will answer for

it, she is not You are the one little person in the world hory with you, child? What a silly idea!" exclai "No, indeed! But,to be

so very pretty that you absolutely need a duenna; and, as I am older

than you, and have had ly sage, I intend to fill the place of a ive you a lecture, a quarter of an hour in length,

on the morals, manners, and proprieties of social life When our

pastoral shall be quite played out, Priscilla, ood stead"

"I ary with me!" repeated Priscilla sadly; for,

while she seeirl often showed a

persistency in her own ideas as stubborn as it was gentle

"Dear me, what can I say to the child!" cried Zenobia in a tone of

hury,

come to my roosworth good-night very sweetly, and nodded to me

with a smile But, just as she turned aside with Priscilla into the

dilance at her countenance It

would have ic actress, could she have