By Celia's Arbor, Chapters XXXIX-XLV [pp. 451-473]

,APPLETONS' JOUR NAL.
books and pictures, and all sorts of pretty things- ford began to tremble. "That was when I lost my
fancy the hulking Moses in such an apartment!-sister-and my nephew was born. You come about
and offered us chairs. There was nothing in the him, I am sure. He has done something terrible at
room which pointed to the presence of the sterner last, that boy, I am afraid. Gentlemen, remember
and heavier sex. Even the chairs seemed only cal- under what bad influences my nephew's early life
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culated for ladies of her own slender dimensions.
Leonard's creaked ominously when he sat down.
"Let me go back twenty-three years," I began.
"But first I must tell you that my name is Ladislas
Pulaski-here is my card-and that we do not come
here from any idle motives. This gentleman-but
you will see presently who he is."
"Three-and-twenty years ago!" Miss Ruther
was spent. If you have to accuse him of anything
wrong, remember that."
"Pray, do not be alarmed," I went on. "Your
nephew's early influences were not so bad as you
think, and you will very likely see reason to be
proud of him."
She shook her head as if that was a thing quite
beyond the reach of hope.
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