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"For human bliss and woe in the frail thread Of human life are all so closely twined, That till the shears of fate the texture shred, The close succession cannot be disjoined, Nor dare we, from our hour, judge that which comes behind. " SIR WALTER SCOTT.
Di had seen her father and Archie off on their journey to Brighton, and, having arranged to replace her brother in three days' time, was surprised when a hasty note, the morning after their departure, informed her that Archie had been recalled to London _on business_, and that she must go to her father at once.