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welcome. Fie, Madaline! you should cheer my mother, and look pleasantly before her.

MRS. ARDEN.

Don't reproach her: she is very kind and very considerate. Without her, I should sink altogether.

YOUNG ARDEN.

Then, she is a good girl, and shall be chidden no more.

MADALINE.

We shall make up this difference in the next room, where I have ordered some refreshment for you; and you must eat something after your journey, and persuade my aunt to do so, too. You must both eat, if you would not sink under entirely.

YOUNG ARDEN.

I thank you, kind cousin, and so we will. Sink under, sayest thou? No, no! we shan't do that, God willing. There is more spirit in us than that comes to;—is there not, mother? (Taking her arm under his as they go off.)

[Exeunt.