HOME AT THE HAVEN.

will be nearly as good as going a voyage, to hear all
uncle's adventures at sea, won't it, Lucy ? "
 Much better, I should say," said Lucy; but still
she did not look as pleased as Edward.
 "And you will like to live in the country too,
Lucy, I am sure you will like it very much," said her
mother.
 Oh yes, mamma-but then Grace Martin I am
so sorry to leave Grace Martin; and at uncle's I shall
never have a girl of my own age to play with, and
Edward will go to school."
 "( That he would do anywhere," said her mother;
"" and you can always write to Grace Martin, as often
as you please."
 "Yes, mamma; but do you think we shall like
Uncle Osborne ? Do you know, I don't quite think he
can be good-natured, or he would not have said that
about our behaving ourselves, or have called us the
boy,' and 'the girl.' "
 "Not good-natured, my dear, when he asks us all
to go to him, and invites you and your brother, who
cannot be of any use to him ? "
 Lucy was too good-natured herself not to be ready
to believe that her notion might be quite unfounded,
and when she saw how pleased her mother and brother
were about going to the Haven, she set quite aside her
own little private reasons for not being so happy in
the prospect herself, and she tried not to think so much
about Grace Martin. Lucy had always known Grace
Martin, but they had latterly been living only a few
doors from where her father and mother lived, so that
Lucy and Grace had seen a geat deal of each other, and
been very happy together. After having had no one
but a brother older than herself to play with in general,
it was quite delightful to Lucy to have Grace as a
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