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"Let it either be grave or glad / If only it may be true. "
DEAR me, such a lot of children! At first you could hardly have believed that they were all brothers and sisters -- such a number there seemed, and several so nearly of a size. There were -- let me see -- two, three, four, actually five girls of varying heights, the two elder, twins apparently, for in all respects they resembled each other so closely; three or four boys, too, from Jack of fourteen to little hop-o'-my-thumb Chris of six. There they were all together in the large empty playroom at Landell's Manor, dancing, jumping, shouting, as only a roomful of perfectly healthy children, under the influence of some unusual and delightful excitement, can dance, and jump, and shout.