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against everybody, and every one looking for
their own or everybody else's concerns, they
scarcely knew which. So many things lost,
so many things brought to light whose owners
could not be discovered ; and then, to add to
it, Arnold came for the Hamiltons. Then
there was ,.,. Ii;. and kissing to be gone
through, entreaties for letters from them, pro-
mises to call to see them, till at last they
were obliged to run fairly away from their
violent admirers, and after wishing Miss
Campbell good-bye, got into the carriage,
waved their hands and nodded their heads
to Clara and Kate at the dressing-room win-
dow, then drove away, and the holidays were
begun.