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38 "And will she be put in mamma's picture?" and both of the children hid their faces in Mrs. Whyte's lap, and began to cry bitterly. Before Mrs. Whyte could explain that the picture would remain, Eda re-entered, and at once the two orphans ran towards her.

"Pray, pray, ask papa not to bring us home a new mamma, and we will be so good without her."

The sight of the children for the moment over-set all the prudent resolutions which it had cost poor Eda so much to form; her natural strong sense at once shewed her the necessity of submission, to tell the children of the event cheerfully, and to induce them to look forward to the bride's arrival as something which was to be a source of happiness, had been her immediate, and, as she thought, firm resolve; but the sudden enquiry overset her hardly acquired firmness. The sight of her tears made the twins cry half in sympathy, and half in fear; any one who has noticed may have observed that the weeping of grown up persons produces a sensation of awe on