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``What do you mean, Hill? We have heard nothing from town.''
``Dear madam,'' cried Mrs. Hill, in great astonishment, ``don't you know there is an express come for master from Mr. Gardiner? He has been here this half hour, and master has had a letter.''
Away ran the girls, too eager to get in to have time for speech. They ran through the vestibule into the breakfast room; from thence to the library; -- their father was in neither; and they were on the point of seeking him up stairs with their mother, when they were met by the butler, who said,
``If you are looking for my master, ma'am, he is walking towards the little copse.''
Upon this information, they instantly passed through the hall once more, and ran across the lawn after their father, who was deliberately pursuing his way towards a small wood on one side of the paddock.
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