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WHO THE PARTIES WERE. 
not so bad as you, after all, Miss Per¬ 
fection.” 
“ When both are wrong it is unnecessary 
to debate which is the most so,” said Miss 
Winston, gravely. “ Annie knows very well 
what I think of such pride; and you know 
that it is not proper to speak so to any one, 
much less to your cousin. But we will let it 
drop for the present; and you had better 
prepare for tea, which is just ready.” 
Richard and Annie Winston, and Sidney 
and Margaret (or, as she was usually called, 
Daisy) Whipple, were grandchildren of 
old Squire Winston, of Cedar Meadows. 
Richard’s father was a sea-captain and very 
much away from home; and since their mo¬ 
ther’s death, about a year before, he and his 
sister had been constantly with their grand¬ 
father. Dick w T as about fifteen, and Annie 
fourteen. They were somewhat alike in 
their dispositions, but with this very import¬ 
ant difference,—that Dick, though naturally 
much more impulsive, was much more under 
the dominion of principle, than his sister. 
He had been a very different boy ever since 
his mother’s long sickness and death; and 
A.unt Louisa, who knew him best, thought 
