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STILL WATERS.

VOL. II.

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LONDON:

SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS,

CHANDOS STREET.

STILL WATERS.

CHAPTER I.

O heart of grace, that, like the lowly flowers,
Bendest beneath the storms, but does not break,
Whom in thy tears kind thoughts do not forsake,
As blessed odours live on thunder-showers:
Whether the sun shines forth, or tempest lowers,
Thou art unshaken-in thy utmost need,

While iron pride is shattered like a reed,
Thy winged hopes fly onward with the hours.
F. TENNYSON.

HERE was a tacit agreement on the part

THERE

of the brother and sisters, when they met at the breakfast-table on the following morning, to put aside the several explanations of the foregoing evening as completely as though they had never been. Ruth was in good spirits; for, although Mr. Ball's sanguine view of her mother's state had failed to reassure her, the decided improvement this morning went far to allay her uneasiness.

'Mamma seems,' she told David, 'more like

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