. A family flight around home. compel you to stay together. But you do not want me, you only — said Augustine, begin-ning to whine again. Bessie looked annoyed. Come, Augustine, I should not inviteyou if I did not wishyou to come with for Tom, he toldme I had better askyou; and it is for youto win his friendshipand Huberts by being-nice. Do not youthink that is moremanly than runningaway from * Thus it was settled. ^^,^,, , .,.,Bessies greater work ^$M/;, if// .Cwas persuading Tomand Hubert to relaxfrom their sternnesstoward Augustine. Er-nest departed for NewYork with Mr. Bruce,rejo
. A family flight around home. compel you to stay together. But you do not want me, you only — said Augustine, begin-ning to whine again. Bessie looked annoyed. Come, Augustine, I should not inviteyou if I did not wishyou to come with for Tom, he toldme I had better askyou; and it is for youto win his friendshipand Huberts by being-nice. Do not youthink that is moremanly than runningaway from * Thus it was settled. ^^,^,, , .,.,Bessies greater work ^$M/;, if// .Cwas persuading Tomand Hubert to relaxfrom their sternnesstoward Augustine. Er-nest departed for NewYork with Mr. Bruce,rejoicing, with some bravado, in the prospect of staying at theFifth Avenue Hotel with his father till the ladies of his familycame to town. It was inferred, however, by his letters to Augus-tine, that his reception by Mr. Stuyvesant was not altogether sat-isfactory, since Mr. Horner had felt obliged to communicate tothat gentleman the escapade of the House-burning. As time passed on, all the children felt they had attached too. MISS LEIEUNE AGAIN. 322 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. much importance to what, after all, was an accident, and onewhich might have been much worse. In looking back upon thesummer at Utopia, all unpleasant features were forgotten, and eachindividual of the party will regard it as one of the pleasantestperiods of his life. The good professor and Mrs. Bruce keep upa lively interest in the children, and are always hoping for an-other summer just like this one. Meanwhile, Miss Lejeune devoted herself to working up the Bos-ton plan. She wrote to Bessie: Everything is arranged. I have invented a new cousin for you, who is the one in-gredient wanting in our combination, as Mrs. Sherwood says about pepper and salt, oncantelope melons. Do you remember your aunt Turner ? Dear me, of course you donot; she died before you were born. Besides, she was not your aunt, any more thanI am, nor half so much, because she was not so agreeable. Her son is in a baniiinghouse in Bo
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