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Rh for my own taste, I at least cannot discover your faults."

"I am afraid you soon will," replied he, though in a tone of voice which showed the flattery had not been lost. They continued unfastening the toys, but though Mrs. Dalton was now profuse in her "loves," and "dears," it was easy to see that she sought entirely to engross her husband's attention. At last, turning the conversation from some doll's furniture to that she now saw for the first time, she expressed a wish to see the house, "This being the only room to which I could find my way by myself." Mr. Dalton immediately proposed shewing her what rooms there yet remained day-light enough to see.

"I was going," continued she, "to petition that these dear children might accompany us, but really, after this over-heated room, it might give them cold." She left the nursery, and both Eda and the children felt the relief of her absence. The first thing Julia did was to run and shut the window, she did it somewhat loudly and hastily.