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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.