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7) AY? > 28 FAMILY JARS—EVERLEIGH TRAITS. faded, swaying tapestry, credulity and marvelousness might, or might not have been answerable for. The Everleighs always shrugged their shoulders, and looked darkly repellent whenever the subject was adverted to. This portion of Everleigh was called-when necessary to be spoken of, ‘‘The Hermitage.” It seemed to have been built first, and bore the appearance somewhat of an entirely separate structure. The halls which traversed it were higher, narrower, darker; the rooms lighted by small windows, like loopholes, in the deep walls. CHAPTER IV. FAMILY JARS-——EVERLEIGH TRAITS, A glad morning, serene and fresh. Mrs. Everleigh had crept from her room out to a little vine-wreathed porch, where the breeze that fanned her delicate temples had a breath of early morning fragrance. ee Presently came Francis, with his dark, bright eyes, to | kiss his mother ‘‘Good-morning,” and go gayly away to ‘i hunt, with his light fowling-piece. There were tears in Mrs. Everleigh’s eyes as she looked after him. Francis ; was very like what his father was once, people said. Vashti came also after a little, for her good-morning kiss, the receipt of which brought tears freshly up again in mamma's tender eyes. Roa ‘‘Where is Nora?” she asked of Vashti. By orks. ‘She is coming; she stopped to romp with Bute in a the great hal’. I told her not to, for Aunt Margery doesn’t like her to play in the house with Bute, but she will do it.”