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SYBIL. 129

and Floss used to have about their cousin
Sybil, and how they wished for her to come
to see them? Well, about a fortnight after
the affair of the lost half-sovereign, Sybil ac-
tually dd come to see them,— she and her
mamma. But it all happened quite differently
from the way the children had planned it, so
that just at first they could hardly believe it
was “a wish come true,” though afterwards,
when it was over, and they began to look back
to it as a real thing, instead of forward to it
as a fancy, they grew to think it had really
turned out nicer than any of their fancies,

You would like to hear all about it, I dare
Say.

It took them all by surprise, —this sudden
visit of Sybil and her mother, I mean. There
was no time for planning or arranging any-
thing. There just came a telegram one after-
noon, to say that Mrs.—no, I don’t think I
will tell you the name of Sybil’s mother, I
want you just to think of her as “auntie” —

and her little girl would arrive at Sandyshore