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Rh for so doing, she gave the most minute details, and ended by saying, "I do not so strongly recommend Mrs. Wilson's, on the usual advertising terms because 'the house is in an airy situation, or, is attended by the best masters,' but because I know Mrs. Wilson's worth and kind-heartedness. Her being beloved, as she is, by her former scholars, is the highest praise that I can bestow."

Both Mr. and Mrs. Dalton went home perfectly satisfied. He quite persuaded that a few years would make his daughters as highly accomplished and as graceful as the Misses Dalrymple, while Mrs. Dalton congratulated herself on the success of her scheme; and the morning's visit had led to no unpleasant suspicions in her husband's mind, as to whether her disinterested attachment to the twins was quite so genuine as she wished him to believe. All was settled during their drive home. Mrs. Dalton was going to town the end of the week, and Julia was to accompany her. "Ellen," said she, "will not like being left behind, we must think of something to console her." That