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ELL, it's ended, at any rate. A most astonishing business it certainly has been! And nobody to blame for part of it."

Mr. Marcy made this declaration for the five-and-twentieth time at least as they were sitting up-stairs an hour after supper on that eventful day. The four were talking almost as fast as ever, each one interrupting the other with a question or a statement, this explanation or problem jumping out of that one. The subject for their consideration was quite unlikely to be exhausted as soon as themselves. What a hubbub they kept up still!

"I can't hear myself think, Philip," Mr. Marcy protested. "Saxton, beg pardon! What's that you asked? No. Gerald, we didn't get worried. How could we when we didn't know there was any thing to worry over? What's that?" So it had gone on for