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FIG. 34. — THE GEOMETRID HORROR. — p. 104. 



an' hopes we '11 hab de pleasure ob yo company at 

 anoder conbersashull family fireside say-an'-say, bery 

 soon." 



Although I laughed at Dan's magniloquence, I was 

 more gratified at that hearty honest approval of my 

 humble dependents than I had often been before at 

 commendations of cultured friends. To be sure, I 

 learned by-and-by that the Mistress was also in the 

 plot, and that Dan's praises were in good part an echo 

 of her promptings ; but the pleasure of the moment 

 was not dimmed by that knowledge. Thus it came 

 about that the next Saturday evening found our house- 



