LIFE IN TEFFE". 



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many pleasant walks, and now we are sitting in the midst 

 of valises and carpet-bags, waiting to see the steamer round 

 the wooded point in front of the house, before we turn the 

 key on our four weeks' home, and close this chapter of our 

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