SUMMONS TO TEA.

«There is the tea-bell,” said Aunt Julia;
“now we must all go in directly. Are
you hungry, Arthur? you look as though
you were. And you too, Fanny, are you
ready for tea ?”

“Fanny, my darling, you must let me
get up now. We must not keep grand-
mamma. waiting,” said Auntie Mimmie.

Fanny rose slowly, and though she tried
to hide her tears, Arthur saw that she had
been crying.

When Auntie Mimmie stood upright, and
out of the arbour, with her hand resting on
Fanny’s shoulder, Arthur saw that she was
as tall as Aunt Julia, and he thought she
was very much like her. They had both
pretty long curls, of the same golden brown
colour, and their eyes were just the same
shape and colour; and their dresses were
exactly alike. As they went towards the
house, Arthur whispered to Fanny, who was
‘walking very much more slowly and steadily ©
than usual, because she was leading her

Auntie. He wanted to ask her, to be sure
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