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LIVING IN REBELLION. 59 1 gi crossed his arms quietly and looked down at her. “Ah! you have found that out already?” “Yes; and nobody ever thinks of coming to you with one. They are all afraid of you—the servants, your clerks, mamma even,—every one but me.” “You are not afraid?” | 6é No nie The answer came boldly and resolutely from the young lady’s lips. She seemed to have reassumed her warlike attitude, and to have determined this time on exasperating the dreaded guardian—but in vain. He remained perfectly calm, and appeared rather amused than offended at his ward’s spirit of contradiction. “It is fortunate your mother is not here,” he re- marked. “She would be a prey to the keenest anx- iety, and quite despair of the perverse young head which will not bend to necessity, as she herself does with admirable self-abnegation. You should take example by her.” “Oh, yes! mamma is docility itself where you are concerned,” cried Gabielle, growing more and more excited; “and she expects the same from me. But I will not play the hypocrite, and I cannot like you, Uncle Arno, for you are not good to us, and never have been good tous. Your very reception of us when wecame wasso humiliating that I should have been glad to go away again at once; and since then you have daily and hourly let us feel that we are dependent on you. You treat my mother with disrespect which often makes me go hot with in- dignation. You speak in a slighting way of my papa, who is dead and cannot defend himself, and you behave to me as though I were a sort of toy not to be thought of seriously. You have taken us in, and we live in your castle, where everything is much grander and finer than in my own home, but I would far rather be away in our Swiss exile, as mamma calls it—in our little house by the lake, which was so simple and modest, where we had barely what was necessary, but where, at least, we were free from youand your tyranny. Mamma Eomichboo <S Eo