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"What is the matter with the child to-day? " said Captain Rothesay to his wife, with whom, oh rare circumstance! he was sitting _tete-a-tete_. But this, and a few other alterations for the better had taken place in consequence of his longer stay at home than usual, during which an unseen influence had been busily at work. Poor Olive! Was it not well for her, that, to temper the first shock of her bitter destiny, there should arise, in the dreary blank of the future, duties so holy, that they stood almost in the place of joys?
"How dull the girl seems! " again observed Captain Rothesay, looking after his daughter, with a tenderness of which he afterwards appeared rather ashamed.