FANNY A PEACE-MAKER

to him, just as if they were the best friends
in the world; for she began to like him
again, now chat she was taking his part.

“No, Fanny, I did not mean to be rude,”
and Harry turned on his heel and looked
hard at the other end of the field. Arthur
went up to Martha, and told her, in a low
tone, that Harry was so violent by nature,
that he could not help doing and saying
tude things; but that he was the kindest
fellow in the world, and so very clever ;
when she got to know him, she would be
sure to like him. Martha, who had been
taught at school and by her grandmamma
to be very polite, was really shocked at the
rude way in which Harry had behaved: but
she listened to Arthur’s defence of his frend
and tried to be convinced by it.

Mr. Clavering had walked away to speak
to some of his men. Fanny thought this
was a good opportunity for trying to make
up her long-standing quarrel with Harry.
She knew that she had been quite as much
to blame in it as Harry, because she nad

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