"
"Poor little girl, she has quite a time of it among them," her father said
as she left him; "yet I think I can safely leave it all with herself."
CHAPTER XXXIII.
"Only one week more and we must say good-bye to dear old Halifax," said
Dexie one morning, as she hurriedly made her toilet.
"Well, I am glad of it, for it is cold enough here this morning to freeze a
bear," replied Gussie from among the blankets.
"Oh! Gussie, the ground is covered with snow, and it is still snowing,"
said Dexie, joyfully, as she raised the window curtain. "Oh, I do hope it
will last until we can have one more sleigh drive," and she ran downstairs
singing like a lark.
All day the snow kept falling in large heavy flakes, but towards evening
the weather turned clear and frosty. Then the merry jingle of sleigh-bells
could be heard on every side, for everyone who could was taking advantage
of this, the first sleighing of the season.
Lancy had no trouble in getting Dexie to promise him her company for a
sleigh drive, but he was planning for a private little drive in a single
sleigh, with only room for two; while Dexie, not quite so sentimentally
inclined, was hoping to make it a jolly sleighing party, in which a number
should participate.
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