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"Mr. Thorndike has come back. He will be here to supper. Rachel, I depend upon you to have every thing in order."

Rachel Garth bowed her head at these words of her father. "And - you may as well have a fire built in the best room, I think."

"The best room!" exclaimed a young, fresh voice in strong contrast with the other, for whereas his was cold and leaden, without an atom of elasticity, hers had a ringing, buoyant sound.

"The best room, I said to your sister."

There was a very decided rebuke in the tone, and something more - a kind of astonishment that any one, most of all this child that Mr. Garth had striven day and night as it were, to reduce to a state of passive obedience, should express the slightest remark upon any command he chose to utter.

Mr. Garth had just risen from the dinner-table. He walked to the fireplace now, and standing with his back to it, crossed his hands in the warmth of the blaze, for it was a chilly November day, and though he was not cold, he would soon have to breast its inclemency. Then he glanced around and his eye fell reprovingly upon his youngest daughter.

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