"You and Mr. Potts ought to be brother and sister, you both revel so in the bare idea of mischief," says Molly, laughing too.

And then Cecil, declaring it is all hours, turns her out of her room, and presently sleep falls and settles upon Herst and all its inmates.

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CHAPTER XXVII.

"Death is here, and death is there;

Death is busy everywhere;

All around, within, beneath,

Above is death,—and we are death.

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Fresh spring, and summer, and winter hoar,