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Rh woman, ready to weep for joy as she received her favorite from his arms.

"Take care of it," said he, "and don't let it go near the rabbit warren, for the gamekeeper swears he'll shoot it, if he sees it there again. He would have done so to day, if I had not been in time to stop him. I believe it is raining, Miss Grey," added he, more quietly, observing that I had put aside my work and was preparing to depart. "Don't let me disturb you—I shan't stay two minutes."

"You'll both stay while this shower gets owered," said Nancy as she stirred the fire, and placed another chair beside it; "what! there's room for all."

"I can see better here, thank you Nancy," replied I, taking my work to the window, where she had the goodness to suffer me to remain unmolested, while she got a brush to remove the cat's hairs from Mr. Weston's coat carefully wiped the rain from his hat, and gave the cat its supper, busily talking all the time; now thanking her clerical friend for what he had done; now wondering how the cat had found out the warren; and now lamenting the probable consequences of such a disco