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 of the name "Augustus," and her head was quite disordered by night, and her eyes saw pin-cushions, with glittering figures, and mottoes in white beads, all over her little dark bed-spread. She did not speak of this to her friends, but concluded that she had worked too closely, and had better put by her work until the next day.

On this evening, just as the family were thinking of retiring, there was a knock on the outer door. It startled Nattie, in her nervous, exhausted state. She started up, and said:

"Please shut my door, and don't tell that I am here, for I know that it is somebody after me, just as well as can be."

The young people looked at each other, and then strove to calm the excited girl, by bidding her lie still, and promising that no harm should come to her.

"You go out," said the wife to her husband; "it is probably some man who wishes to see you on business, and I will close the door and sit