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CHAPTER X. 
THE BEARS. 
“This will be almost the last lecture,” 
said Sidney, soberly, as they seated them¬ 
selves after tea in the usual order. 
“ Quite the last, won’t it ?” asked Antoin¬ 
ette. 
“No; or, at least, I hope not. We shall 
not go to school till a week from to-daj r ; 
and Aunt Louisa says she hopes she will 
find time for at least one more. Oh, dear!” 
(and Sidney drew a deep sigh:) “ I wish we 
were not going, or else that we could go 
and stay too.” 
“But I thought you wanted to go?” re¬ 
marked Antoinette. 
“ Of course he wants to go!” said 
Matilda. “You don’t suppose that he and 
Richard are always going to be tied up with 
a parcel of girls, do you ?” 
