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because the fish did not bite as they should have 

 done, and neglected scientific allurements for less 

 artistic attractions. Deacon Goodlow was misera- 

 ble, because Katy looked unhappy and reproachful, 

 occasionally enforcing her reproaches with a sob or 

 two. Deacon Hartley was miserable, partly because 

 he was ashamed of himself and partly because it 

 went against his whole nature to quarrel ; Katy was 

 miserable, because her lover had neglected her, and 

 she had had no chance to disobey her father's in- 

 junctions not to see him; Harry was the most 

 miserable of the party now that the excitement of 

 achieving his independence was over, because he 

 missed the presence of his lady-love, and knew in his 

 heart he had vented a little of his anger by neglect- 

 ing her. 



Harry was pining for her now in a much more 

 rampant way than she had previously pined for him, 

 and had revolved twenty impracticable schemes of 

 restoring matters to their condition previous to the 

 war. The inevitable laws of nature, however, that 

 had caused all these mental wounds, helped to bring 

 them to a crisis and finally to effect a cure. It was 

 Sunday morning, and Harry had resolved twenty 

 times he would join Katy on her way to church, for 

 she went before her father to teach a class of Sun- 

 day scholars, and twenty times resolved that he 

 would not. His father had convinced himself as 

 many times that neighborly ill-will should be cor- 

 rected at a sacrifice even of a little pride, and as 

 often that he could not make the first advance ; 

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