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ABOUT PEOPLE.

Then a quiet walk again: Then a wicket in the wall: Then one, stepping on alone, — Then two at the Heart of All!


In this average home there is the sister who washes and stiffens her one silk that the brother may have another suit; who turns his cravats, and for his sake invites all the girls; and there is the brother who is a better friend than beau, and who will not, even in his daydreams, think of her whom he wants to marry, that he may longer support the aging father and mother. Oh, it is the dear, blessed, average people whose names echo through our prayers, who make each economy a loving grace, each well-worn joke a blossom of goodwill!

Or, if wealth bas lightened daily cares, it is still the average mother who lovingly takes invisible darns in the merino sock which a new one could easily replace; who changes the brilliant chromo for Correggio's angels, and

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