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OLIVE BUDS.
engagements. Unless you perform what is expected of you, at the proper time, people will cease to have confidence, in you."
The boys promised to be punctual and obedient, and their mother assured them, that they were not often forgetful of these important duties.
Eliza came in with the bread nicely toasted, for their supper.
"What a good little one, to be thinking of her brothers, when they are away. Come, sweet sister, sit between us."
Eliza felt very happy, when her brothers each gave her a kiss, and she looked up in their faces, with a sweet smile.
The evening meal was a pleasant one.