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Tom wanted to sail the _Belle_ a while, in order to ascertain her points; and though it was now dark, he unmoored her, and stood up the lake. After I had called upon the gentleman who had engaged the _Belle_, to explain the change in my arrangements -- which, as the person knew Tom very well, were entirely satisfactory -- I went home. My father had just returned from the other side; and I found our family in the most cheerful frame of mind. Our star appeared to be in the ascendant again.
"I have been warned out of town, father," said I, as we sat down to supper.