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the contents of her little bundle. “ I
must go to Jessy Stephenson’s, for you
know that it would not be right to give
her the things at school, as the little
girls would thea know that I brought
them, and it will be better not, you
know, Charles.” Charles acceded to
the propriety of Rosa’s scheme. “ I
don’t care,” said he, ‘* if I am at
school an hour too soon, I can get
another lesson, you know, or we can
walk about a little till school hours.”
So off they went, with hearts as light
as health, youth; ‘and innocence could
make them; and soon reached a mean
hut, close to a rock at the end of the
village, wherewant and misery might be
said to have fixed their dwelling, though
chearfulness and content seemed almost
to have excluded. them.

‘ ' Rosa