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CtIAPTER XIII.
THE #IORNING ¥ISIT.
I# the fron# parlour of the bouse occupied by the De Dressen
family, sat Amelia, with the little boy, on thc sofa. A round
tea-tablc was drawn close to hcr side, and Amelia furnished if
with a new supply of card-houses, soldiers, women, shies, and
various other similar beauties, all for the entertainment of ber
little guest.
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The clock had struck twelve some thne previously, when
#iadame de I)ressen entered the room with a cloak thrown over
ber arm, and a bonnet in ber hand.
"I canno# wait any longer, my child; I should miss my
b#thing hour."
"But supposing he cornes while you are gone down, mother ?
If is strange that my father does hOt rcturn."
"That# #vill hot be a great misfortune; you bave hot become
so short of words that you cannot cntertain him here as well as
you did on the l’hot."
"Yes, upon the T]#or; I do no# see how you eau speak thus.
It is certainly differen# fo talk to one on the s#eamboa#, than fo
rcceive one h# one’s own bouse."
"One would think you had never seen a stranger bcfore in
your lire," replicd Madame De Dressen, a slight reproach lying in
ber forte, as slm threw a look full of meaning from the child to
hcr daughter. She remembered the old adage, "even tlm smallcst
pots have ears;" and shc was right, for Alfred looked up to
Amelia and said, "De no# aïraid, Ammy. I shall remain with
you, and papa will corne also."
"Yes, that is just the thîng," thought Amelia, blushing af the
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