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. SS
ZA AWAN
ENS

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COUSIN EVA.

HE moment she arrived her cousins fell in love
with her, from Frederick, the eldest of the ten,
nearly twenty-one, to Lisabee, the tiny mite of four,
who cried ‘Pretty! pretty!’ to Eva’s fair hair and
light blue dress.

Cousin Eva was so fair, so gracious, so winning,
who could help but love he’ ? And then she was an
orphan—motherless and aatherless from babyhood.
Kind Aunt Farington kissed her-with-tears in her
eyes, and murmured how glad she was that school
days were over, and that now she could feel as if

Eva were really one of her daughters. Aunt Far-
ington had already seven, pleasant-looking, intel-
ligent girls of her own, but without Eva’s beauty and
without her thousand a-yeavr.

For some time Cousin Eva maintained her popu-
larity among her young cousins, but by degrees their
feelings changed.

Lisabee deserted her cousin first; Eva had gently

/put-her off her knee. when. she-was. dressed in her

best clothes, and Lisabee, who liked the feel as well
as the look of silk and velvet, resented this. The

 

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