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Rh years back, and nothing of less consequence could have made her take the fatigue of the journey. But she did not think Jessie was a judge of house linen, or napery (as she called it), and Mrs. Robert Lindsay was an Englishwoman, and could not be expected to know anything of what was needed, so that department of the business she must see to herself. And certainly she did it very thoroughly, only she bought twice as much as Jessie thought she needed. "Things are made so much ﬁimsier nowa-days," Mrs. Lindsay would say, giving the linen an impatient tweak, "so ye behove to have the larger stock in the house."

Amy went in partly to give Jessie the advantage of her taste in choosing, and partly to gether riding habit properly. fitted on. It was handsomer than Isabel's or Phemie's; but the girls were not jealous of her superior equipment; they were very fond of her, and besides, whatever Allan did he had a good right to do, and after all the pains she had taken with him, it was a pleasure to him to give her something. She looked better in the riding habit and on horseback than in any other dress or in any other circumstances. She was still slight and probably would always be so, but her figure was finely proportioned, and her. slenderness did not betoken any delicacy of